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
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The real debate is we've had an activist court, and the American people don't want an activist court. And the real fear from those who might oppose Samuel Alito is that he'll bring the court back within a realm where the American people might want us to be with a Supreme Court; one that interprets the law, equal justice under the law, but not advancing without us advancing, the legislative body advancing, ahead of him.
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I asked Chief Justice John Roberts about this definition of life - you know, what is life? The Supreme Court can't figure it out or doesn't want us to figure it out; the fact that we know that there is no life if there's no heartbeat and brainwaves.
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I know the tribal issues. I was a congressman where most of the Indians are in this state. The problem is that most of them aren't Indians. The average Cherokee quantum is 1/512.
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The new guidance for condom labels issued today by the FDA recognizes that current condom claims do not meet this medical standard.
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I'm not sure the will is here to sacrifice,
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They can stick their head in the sand, but the fact is, whatever passes the House is going to have some type of liability,
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We find ourselves in significant difficulties as a nation,
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Is relying on foreign precedent and selecting and choosing a foreign precedent to create a bias outside of the laws of this country, is that good behavior?
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This is a moral question, Not an economic issue.
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one of those once-in-a-decade moments where we can forge a left-right alliance on a policy issue.
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I am looking for somebody who is not going to make that mistake again in any other area of life,
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I believe that we should spend taxpayer dollars where they are most needed,
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A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, ... When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential, my heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization, less finger-pointing, less bitterness, less mindless partisanship.
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A clear lesson in this tragedy is that one point person tends to be more effective than many point persons, ... We need to conduct oversight before the fact, not after the fact when it is too late to undo mistakes.