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Famous Tom DeLay Quotes

“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

From Talk Back Live on CNN 1995 December 19.
1990s

“Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour [the minimum wage in 1996] are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist.”

Tom DeLay

From the Congressional Record, H3706 [1996 April 23] http://frwebgate3.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=93746225856+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve.
1990s

“Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.”

Tom DeLay

From a speech made to bankers 2003 March 12 [citation needed]
2000s

“I have notified the speaker that I will temporarily step aside from my position as majority leader pursuant to rules of the House Republican Conference and the actions of the Travis County district attorney today.”

Tom DeLay

On his indictment for conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9507677/ (28 September 2005).
2000s

“I have seen these liberal psychologists and sociologists talk about there is no need for the man in the family. The woman can take care of it. A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure. To provide stability. Not that a woman can’t provide stability, I’m not saying that… It does take a father, though.”

Tom DeLay

http://www.house.gov/schakowsky/press2004a/pr2_10_2004delay.html On the role of women in the home. ~ From a radio interview http://thewaronfaith.com/mog-tomdelay.htm. His wife, Christine DeLay quickly asked to "edit this out," then turned to Tom and said: "This is not a good thing for you to be saying".
2000s

“I’ve been indicted for rules that don’t even exist”

Tom DeLay

[ http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/121306/delay.html Interview with The Hill], (11 December 2006)
2000s

Tom DeLay Quotes

“Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.”

Tom DeLay

April 4, 2006.[citation needed]
2000s

“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

As reported from "Late Edition" on CNN 1997 April 6.
1990s

Dreams , Time , Future

“It's never been proven that air toxics [sic] are hazardous to people.”

Tom DeLay

From the Houston Chronicle 1990 October 27.
1990s

People

“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

Associated Press 1995 July 29.
1990s

“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

From a speech at the 2007 College Republican National Convention http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFGit_tZDqs in Washington, DC.
2000s

Children

“It's the fault of the liberals and the media and the Democrats, that from the very beginning have tried to undermine the will of the American people to fight this.”

Tom DeLay

Appearing on Hannity and Colmes http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002129.php (12 December, 2006̠)
2000s

People , Fight

“My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.”

Tom DeLay

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5822374/ On the State of Israel] (August 31 2004)
2000s

War

“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

On bipartisanship ~ From the Houston Chronicle 1991 April 14.
1990s

Way

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

Tom DeLay

[ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090901930.html On the refugees of Hurricane Katrina]] ~ As reported in the Washington Post, (10 September 2005)
2000s

Truth , Boy

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

Tom DeLay

Meet the Press, 2003 December 12.
2000s

“So many minority youths had volunteered…that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like”

Tom DeLay

myself
On why he and Dan Quayle did not fight in the Vietnam War at the 1988 Republican National Convention. Tim Fleck, January 7, 1999, "Which Bug Gets the Gas?" Houston Press.
1990s

Youth

“Our school systems teach the children that they are nothing but glorified apes who are evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud.”

Tom DeLay

on floor of House of Representatives, quoted in [Capitol Sketchbook; In a Bitter Cultural War, An Ardent Call to Arms, The New York Times, 1999-06-17, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/17/us/capitol-sketchbook-in-a-bitter-cultural-war-an-ardent-call-to-arms.html?pagewanted=2, 2011-10-10]
Words originally written by Addison Dawson, read into the Congressional Record http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1999-06-16/html/CREC-1999-06-16-pt1-PgH4364-2.htm by DeLay (June 16, 1999).
1990s

Children , School

“We've already found a secret memo coming out of the Justice Department. They're now going to go after 12 new perversions, things like bestiality, polygamy, having sex with little boys and making that legal. Not only that, but they have a whole list of strategies to go after the churches, the pastors, and any businesses that tries to assert their religious liberty. This is coming and it's coming like a tidal wave.”

Tom DeLay

[2015-06-30, Steve Marlsberg Show, Newsmax TV, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZy8V7NAagQ], quoted in [2015-07-01, Tom DeLay Knows Of Secret DOJ Memo To Legalize '12 New Perversions,' Including Bestiality And Pedophilia, Kyle Mantyla, Right Wing Watch, 2015-07-03, http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tom-delay-knows-secret-doj-memo-legalize-12-new-perversions-including-bestiality-and-pedophi]
2010s

Secret , Justice , Sex , Boy

“Kofi Annan's kangaroo court…a clear and present danger to the war on terrorism and Americans fighting it all over the world.”

Tom DeLay

On the International Criminal Court ~ AP [2004 July 16] http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/040715/w071572.html
2000s

War , World , Fight

“I am the Federal Government”

Tom DeLay

to a waitress who asked him to put out his cigar because smoking in a restaurant in Washington is against Federal law.[citation needed]
2000s