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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one of the weakest and most baseless indictments in American history.
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I believe that if you commit perjury under oath and you suborn perjury and you obstruct justice, then you ought to be impeached, ... Meet the Press.
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Because of the courage of Discovery's crew, and the commitment of everyone at NASA and the entire space community, our generation has an opportunity to go farther into space and further into the void, to do the impossible and answer the unsolvable. For that chance, we all owe the crew more than our thanks.
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She's a worthy opponent. I've always sort of liked her. But, obviously, I want to beat her at every turn.
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Oh yeah, he's just doing his job. He's just doing his job. He's got a film crew that has been following him around for two years to document how he's going to get Tom DeLay,
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Since then, a massive Chinese missile and military build-up across the Taiwan Straits has served as a constant threat, ... Waiting for the next shoe to fall would be a very costly mistake.
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My earmarks are pretty important to building an economy in that region, ... What's good about the highway bill ... is it creates hundreds of thousands of jobs. It is an economic engine that drives the economy.
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My defense in this case will not be technical or legalistic. It will be categorical and absolute.
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My answer to those that want to offset the spending is sure, bring me the offsets, I'll be glad to do it. But nobody has been able to come up with any yet,
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My answer to those that want to offset the spending is, 'Sure, bring me the offsets, I'll be glad to do it,' ... But nobody has been able to come up with any yet.
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Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?
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Make no mistake, this $10.5 billion is initial relief,
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Let me be very, very clear, ... I have done nothing wrong. I have violated no law, no regulation, no rule of the House. I have done nothing unlawful, unethical or, I might add, unprecedented.
Let me be very clear, I have done nothing wrong,