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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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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It's incredibly irresponsible to try to convince the American people that there is no problem.,
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As a member of the House leadership, I am fully supportive of doing what is in the best interests of young Elian and moving this bill through Congress when we return,
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Senator Frist is a good man, he's simply advocating a bad policy.
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Earle and his staff engaged in an extraordinarily irregular and desperate attempt to contrive a viable charge
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I've seen some of the devastation first hand and I know they have a long road ahead of them and helping to facilitate that effort is the House's No. 1 priority for the foreseeable future,
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Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?
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attempted to browbeat and coerce' the second grand jury to change its decision not to indict DeLay so there would be no public record of a rejection.
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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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People that just throw numbers out, not knowing what they're talking about, I think it's pretty irresponsible.
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Our members want us to continue, the speaker wants us to continue to negotiate, and so does the Senate, so we're going to continue to negotiate and see if we can get a bill in December,
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Any partisan crackpot district attorney who might want to indict a member of our leadership.
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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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There were mistakes made by everybody involved, ... There were decisions that needed to be made that weren't made, and we shouldn't be dwelling on that issue.