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
real law justice
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.
real cutting issues
Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used
leadership money real
Tactics and strategies ought to be based on what the real world is, and we do not have the political power to do this. We're not about to shut the government down over the fact that we cannot, only controlling one house of Congress, tell the president that we're not going to fund any portion of [Obamacare]. Because we can't do that.
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.
bias choosing create foreign good laws outside precedent relying selecting
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?
press
I won't press you on this issue, I know you can't answer,
priorities
It doesn't have much to do with Alaska, ... It has to do with priorities for our country.
certainly life presence
the presence of them certainly designates life and to say it otherwise, logically, is schizophrenic.
agency example inaccurate information latest misleading providing public risk
Today's misleading recommendations by the F.D.A. are the latest example where the agency has put the public at risk by providing inaccurate information about condoms,
again area looking mistake somebody
I am looking for somebody who is not going to make that mistake again in any other area of life,
believe dollars spend taxpayer
I believe that we should spend taxpayer dollars where they are most needed,
alliance forge moments policy
one of those once-in-a-decade moments where we can forge a left-right alliance on a policy issue.
ourselves
We find ourselves in significant difficulties as a nation,
bit disturbing hold presented record smell subtle test today trying
That record doesn't hold up to the smell test that has been presented here today and it's a little bit disturbing to me because it's this subtle way of trying to say you are not who you really are,