Tom DeLay
Tom DeLay
Thomas Dale DeLayis a former member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1985 until 2006. He was Republican PartyHouse Majority Leader from 2003–05...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 April 1947
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Some say it takes a village to raise a child, but it takes a village idiot to raise taxes on working families.
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So today, I am announcing my intention to resign my seat in the House.
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Now more than ever you're going to need ... that infrastructure, those highway trust funds, to rebuild the bridges that were destroyed, rebuild the railroads that were destroyed. You have to have the infrastructure or you can't have a recovery,
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I brought this matter -- which I discovered on my own -- to the attention of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to alert the chairman and ranking member,
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I am a target, ladies and gentlemen, ... But I am nobody's victim.
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I am proud of the past. I am at peace with the present.
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He's not going to still run things ... but he's clearly a member of Congress, and he's a very important part of the team.
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He's not even trying to be fiscally responsible,
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I could have won this seat, but it would have been nasty.
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The latest attack on Chairman Henry Hyde, launched by Salon -- a close ally of the Clinton White House -- is the most despicable, most disgraceful, most disgusting piece of rumor-mongering that I have ever seen.
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The detractors from our successes might want to congratulate Saddam Hussein on his ability to hide them or destroy them, ... But there's no doubt in anybody's mind, including people like France and Germany and others, that he had weapons of mass destruction.
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The emergency response system was set up to work from the bottom up,
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All wisdom does not reside in nine persons in black robes, ... The Constitution is clear on the point that the power to make laws is vested on Congress.
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The Iraqi people are starting to believe that the United States and the coalition forces are serious.