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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It's got to be rolled out. It's got to be talked about,
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My own impression is the whole system broke down.
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It's time for me to go do something else.
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It's really good to be here among so many old friends and brothers and sisters in the cause for justice and human freedom, ... We love you, Tom.
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This is one of the weakest, most baseless indictments in American history. It's a sham and Mr. Earle knows it. It's a charge that cannot hold up even under the most glancing scrutiny,
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I am proud of the past. I am at peace with the present.
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People are too quick to give up their responsibility and duty as congressmen to other people, ... We are more than capable of looking at it.
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The U.S. State Department would do well to remember that it answers to the president of the United States, not the European Union,
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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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one of the weakest and most baseless indictments in American history.
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It's going to be a long, hot summer, we know that. It's going to be very difficult.
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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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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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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.