Tom DeLay Quotations

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

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.

You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.

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.

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.

We believe that Ronnie Earle is a politically vindictive district attorney, ... He's pursuing Jim Ellis because he works for Tom DeLay.

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,

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.

with the intent that a felony be committed.

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.

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.

What the Senate passed is a nationalized system; what we hope to pass is a federalized system.

There exists in Travis County so great a prejudice against me that I cannot obtain a fair and impartial trial,

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,

Make no mistake, this $10.5 billion is initial relief,

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,

Let's dispense with the notion that Congress can punish the president either by a so-called censure or by a fine or any other punishment, ... Such a deal is unconstitutional, and anyone who believes in that kind of deal believes not in the rule of law, but the rule of man, and needs to read the Constitution.

Senator Frist is a good man, he's simply advocating a bad policy.

She's a worthy opponent. I've always sort of liked her. But, obviously, I want to beat her at every turn.

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,

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.

Mr. Earle and his staff know it. And I will prove it.

medical research predicated on the destruction of human embryos.

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,

My friends, I have violated no law, no regulation, no code of ethics and no House rule, ... I am innocent and I will prove it.

one of the weakest and most baseless indictments in American history.

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.

My defense in this case will not be technical or legalistic. It will be categorical and absolute.

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,

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.

Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?

I have done nothing wrong. I am innocent,

I am feeling more comfortable with the mission after the briefing the president gave, ... The military is more in charge than before.

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.

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.

I find this is a very good day,

I did nothing wrong, ... I had nothing to do with the day-to-day operation. It was my idea to form this group. I helped to organize it. I have other things to do. I stepped away and moved on.

I can tell you with great certainty that a censure resolution would have failed in the House,

Four justices of the Florida State Supreme Court have distorted the judicial process into nothing more than a mechanism for providing Mr. Gore with the victory he was unable to win November 7. This ruling not only contradicts, but assaults, the most basic principles of jurisprudence,

I don't think anyone is really thinking about that,

I don't want the federal government to take over disaster response, believe me,

I get to continue my partnership with the speaker,

if we spent less time ducking responsibility and more time welcoming it.

Whatever it takes we will do to help the victims.

There is no greater American in my mind, at least today, than Bob Livingston because he understood what this debate was all about. It was about honor and decency and integrity and the truth,

There is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.

What I heard was what most of us already knew, ... I'm sure the report will give the details substantiating what we've all already known, that basically security is not something that can be 100 percent.

Under no circumstances will I vote to spend one penny of the Social Security trust fund on anything but Social Security,

He vetoed the foreign aid bill because he wanted to increase foreign aid by 30 percent, and he wanted to take it out of the Social Security surplus,

He is trying to pull the legal equivalent of a 'do-over' since he knows very well that the charges he brought against me last week are totally manufactured and illegitimate. This is an abomination of justice,

I would suggest to Senator Daschle that he put aside his party's planned fund-raising trip and take up the serious business of this country.

I think that the judicial system should not be open to the kind of criticism that would naturally happen if Judge Perkins remains on the case,

I think they would serve the nation better if they would just comment on what they see and what they know, rather than putting their own agenda forward as an expert.

It is in the national interest that CAFTA passes. It is good for our national security in supporting these fledgling democracies at our back door. It is good for our effort against illegal immigration. It is good for our economy,

lawfully collected from individuals who knew what they were contributing to.

just another seedy attempt by the liberal media to embarrass me.

I respect his opinion, but I don't respect his ability to count votes,

Our responsibility, that frankly we didn't perform very well, is to make sure those are legitimate earmarks for legitimate reasons.

Rio Bend is now a reality and so are the hopes of 48 kids who for too long have been denied the basic physical and emotional necessities that all children need,

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,

orchestrate a conspiracy to intimidate members of Congress by using their past lives.

People need to be doing their jobs right now,

Sure, when you get this number of people, there are stories of sexual exploitation. But in interviewing these employees one-on-one, there was no evidence of any of that going on. No evidence of sweatshops as portrayed by the national media. It's a beautiful island with beautiful people who are happy about what's happening.

That evidence is coming, ... when it's timely.

My setback is temporary, but our victories will last a lifetime, ... So while they may have made me step aside for now, they can never make us stand down.

My own impression is the whole system broke down.

My wife and daughter have any right, just like any other American, to be employed and be compensated for their employment,

look into the events leading up to the disaster and the circumstances surrounding the initial and unacceptable response.

I think people who are saying things now are, by their own comments, undermining their own credibility,

It is fair to say the overall response to this emergency could have and should have been better,

It is expensive, but at the same time, it's incredibly important, because the return (in results) to the people of the United States and the world is also very important.

We'll always listen to what the president has to say, but we have a bill that has already passed the House; the Senate is working on passing it. ... We have to move forward.

The analysis provided the commission by the department of defense about the national homeland security value of the base was seriously flawed.

Who knows, we may even go to Thanksgiving,

We have people in need and we are going to have to provide for those needs. We have no choice. Our fellow man needs us. We have to reach out and do what we can.

Well, I hope so. I can do my job with or without the title. That doesn't concern me.

We hope many other congressmen would see this as a success and will want to do this in their own districts, and that' s how we hope to get this around the country,

we went to work and we were under the impression that he probably wasn't (going to indict), or he would have ... called me to testify before the grand jury. I have not testified before the grand jury to present my side of the case, and they indicted me.

We have to remove the red tape so they can get these checks and start to rebuild their lives,

We're close -- very close, ... Hopefully we'll have the bill tonight or tomorrow.

We must not allow our president to be undermined by those who want his job,

We will recover. And we will rebuild. And the Congress will work in a bipartisan fashion to see to it that the work ahead of us is done right.

We will raise the Katrina disaster as the top priority for the House, but at the same time we have other work that we will be working on,

The outlook is not very good, ... Even if the bill is passed, it wouldn't stop these shootings.

We don't have an agreed agenda. Breaking up our leadership has taken its toll.

Upon learning of these accounting irregularities, I immediately requested that the trust undergo a full and complete audit from its June 2000 inception through 2004 to determine if any additional accountancy problems existed with the trust.

We should never stop working to bring freedom to Cuba, Congress should take no step that inadvertently strengthens the Castro regime and compromises our campaign against terror.

We should never stop working to bring freedom to Cuba.

We ought to be proud of that. But what are we doing in Washington? We're pointing our fingers. We're talking about process.

We don't need a hundred hearings going on calling people out of the field to testify... people need to be doing their jobs now,

The president tonight spoke eloquently of both the suffering this hurricane has caused and about the hope that continues to rise in the Gulf Coast region, even as the floodwaters recede.

There are about a thousand churches right here in Houston, and a lot of them are helping people with housing, but FEMA says they can't reimburse faith-based organizations,

The only choice is between victory and defeat.

We need to create an interstate system, ... We created an interstate highway system. Surely we can create an interstate transmission system so that we can get energy to the people who need it.

The president's refusal to admit that he lied under oath perpetuates and compounds the untruths he formulated in the Paula Jones deposition and continued during his grand jury testimony,

The president is learning from us, if you increase spending, you're going to have to find a way to pay for it,

but our respect and admiration does not grant judges the powers many have assumed over the years.

but no one is able to come up with any.

Today we will pass a Medicare prescription drug benefit because for us, fulfilling America's promise is not just a slogan, it's a commitment to meet the needs of the American people as we face the 21st century,