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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This is a very delicate package, ... Any part that you start unraveling, it will take days if not weeks to put back together. ... There is a lot of good stuff in this package. It is a compromise package and he ought to sign it.
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We ought to be proud of that. But what are we doing in Washington? We're pointing our fingers. We're talking about process.
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My lawyers tell me that this is so frivolous, so over the top, so embarrassing to the judiciary that we ought to be able to get it out of here quickly,
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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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with the intent that a felony be committed.
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We have no choice, ... This is a crisis. We can sustain this as long as we need to, to get them back with their families or absorb them into the community.
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What the Senate passed is a nationalized system; what we hope to pass is a federalized system.
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We believe that Ronnie Earle is a politically vindictive district attorney, ... He's pursuing Jim Ellis because he works for Tom DeLay.
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We're saying 'no, Mr. President,' ... No means no, we're not going to spend a dime out of Social Security and we're not going to raise taxes, but we are going to balance the budget.
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There is no question that these democratically elected governments, asking collectively to increase the economic security of those countries, could make it a national security vote if we turn our backs on them,
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There is no negotiating with a man like this, ... There is no safe path to accommodate his ambitions. Our only responsible option was to confront this threat before more Americans die. He must be removed from power.
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There exists in Travis County so great a prejudice against me that I cannot obtain a fair and impartial trial,
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We have reason to believe that top aides that have access to the Oval Office have been orchestrating a conspiracy to intimidate members of Congress by using their past lives as an embarrassment to intimidate,
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Our responsibility, that frankly we didn't perform very well, is to make sure those are legitimate earmarks for legitimate reasons.