Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
Thomas Allen "Tom" Coburnis an American politician and medical doctor. A member of the Republican Party, he was the junior United States Senator from Oklahoma...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 March 1948
CityCasper, WY
CountryUnited States of America
country retirement self
Few things infuse a member of Congress with more courage than self-imposed term limits or an imminent retirement. The issues they choose to focus on in their final months say a great deal about what are really the most important issues in the country.
jobs believe differences
I would like to believe I would not have behaved differently had I not made a term limits pledge, but my own frailties and human desire for prestige and position tell me my term limits pledge did make a difference in how I approached my job in Congress.
political politics bears
The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.
careers political ego
The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.
political politics term-limits
We can achieve much greater representation through term-limited members.
believe political generations
I still believe that term limits is the best way to ensure that the next generation, not the next election, is the central concern in our elected bodies.
government doe
We must have government that spends less and does less.
waste spending federal-spending
Expose widespread waste and duplication in federal spending.
children america adjectives
The question that arises as we use all these adjectives and adverbs to describe our physicians as we approach a Supreme Court nominee is where are we in America when we decide that it's legal to kill our unborn children?
breasts breast-implants implants
Silicone breast implants make you healthier.
father political term-limits
The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.
loyalty party people
People that had the guts to put their loyalty to the Constitution ahead of their loyalty to their political party were citizen legislators.
real issues our-society
It is a real issue, a measurement of our society, when we say it's fine to destroy unborn life who has a heartbeat at 16 days post-conception.
philosophy winning self
Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.