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Tom DeLay

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A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Family
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I am the Federal Government.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Government
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In short, it is the position of the people of the United States, as expressed by their representatives in Congress, that Israel's fight is our fight. And so shall it be until the last terrorist on earth is in a cell or a cemetery.
- Tom DeLay
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Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.
- Tom DeLay
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My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.
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You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.
- Tom DeLay
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Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.
- Tom DeLay
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I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church.
- Tom DeLay
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I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.
- Tom DeLay
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The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.
- Tom DeLay
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It's the arrogance of man to think that man can change the climate of the world. Only nature can change the climate. A volcano, for instance.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Men
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We have a small faction, and they are a minority, who believe they are there to govern. Then there is the majority of us who believe that indeed we are there to govern but more importantly we are there to be an opposition to the Democratic philosophy and the only way to do that is through confrontation.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Philosophy
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Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate change and, represents a significant commercial opportunity.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Business
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Howard Dean is a cruel and extremist demagogue. And Howard Dean is as ignorant on John Ashcroft as he is on national security. If this cruel, loudmouth extremist is the cream of the Democrat crop, next November's going to make the 1984 election look like a squeaker.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Ignorant
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These are people that don't want to protect the American people... [T]hey will do anything, spend all the time and resources they can, to avoid confronting evil.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Evil
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Calculated and craven political stunt.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Political
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Christianity offers the only viable, reasonable, definitive answer to the questions of Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? Does life have any meaningful purpose?
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Meaningful
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If Israel falls to the terrorists, the entire free world will tremble. To forsake Israel now would be tantamount to forsaking Great Britain in 1940. It is unthinkable, and it is unthinkable because the world wants to know if we believe freedom is worth fighting for.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Believe
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Without any coherent international blueprint the White House has bombed its way around the globe, while dropping troops far and wide for ill-defined peacemaking duties. This policy has gutted the American military which now must be rebuilt.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Military
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Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Emotional
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I am the federal government!
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Government
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It's never been proven that air toxics are hazardous to people.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Air
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Progressive companies regard climate change as an opportunity rather than a threat
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Business
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Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Inspiring
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Only business can build a low-carbon economy. Business is all about seeing ideas and growing them. Businesses have the resources, the people, the technical skills to make things happen - and they have the channels to market
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Business
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Don't send your kids to Baylor. And don't send your kids to [Texas] A&M... Texas A&M used to be a conservative university. It's lost all of its conservatism.... My daughter went there. You know, she had horrible experiences with coed dorms and guys who spent the weekends in the rooms with girls.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Girl
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The best that can be said about embryonic stem cell research is that it is scientific exploration into the potential benefits of killing human beings.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Cells
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If we had those 40 million children that were [aborted] over the last 30 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Jobs
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Kofi Annan's kangaroo court [is] a clear and present danger to the war on terror and to Americans fighting it all over the world.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: War
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For all its faults, it is partisanship - based on core principles- that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and new leaders.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Party
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Until we begin to discover the national values that for centuries have allowed us to rise above our natures and act as civilized men and women, our country will continue to suffer the steady deterioration in standards that disturbs us all.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Country
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Newt Gingrich is an incredible leader. He is a leader of our time, and he's going to lead us into the future. And we're going to accomplish the things that we've all dreamed of.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Leader
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Clinton's bombing campaign has caused all of these problems to explode
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Campaigns
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Mr. Speaker, there are some in this Chamber who believe that Christians, like well-behaved children, should be seen and not heard... Christians will not remain silent. We are here to stay.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Christian
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Temper your future actions.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Action
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I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone has lost his moral compass and has to go to jail to find it, then I believe it will make him a much better person.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Believe
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The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners of this Earth. It must be war without quarter, pursuit without rest, victory without qualification
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Memorial Day
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He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am. He is training me.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Biblical
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Only Christianity offers a comprehensive worldview that covers all areas of life and thought, every aspect of creation. Only Christianity offers a way to live in response to the realities that we find in this world - only Christianity.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Reality
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Does life have any meaningful purpose?
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Meaningful
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You can support the troops but not the president.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Support
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We are witnessing the criminalization of conservative politics.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Conservative
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American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Feel Good
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The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Government
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It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Self
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You know, there is an argument to be made that these extensions of unemployment benefits keep people from going and finding jobs. In fact there are some studies that have been done that show people stay on unemployment compensation and they don't look for a job until two or three weeks before they know the benefits are going to run out.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Running
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Just sprinkle a little lime to neutralize the acid.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Sprinkles
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That's pretty tough talk from a guy who has fewer days at work this year than he has houses.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Years
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Forgiveness does not absolve you from consequences.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Doe
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Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.
- Tom DeLay
Collection: Children

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