davidfcooper

9 Quotes:

1) "So many minority youths had volunteered...that there was
literally
no room for patriotic folks like myself."
--Tom De Lay, explaining at the 1988 GOP convention why he and
vice
presidential nominee Dan Quayle did not fight in the Vietnam War

2) "Now, tell me the truth, boys, is this kind of fun?" -Tom
Delay, to
three young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans Astrodome in
Houston,
Sept. 9, 2005

3) "I AM the federal government."
-Tom DeLay, to the owner of Ruth's Chris Steak House, after being
told
to put out his cigar because of federal government regulations
banning
smoking in the building, May 14, 2003

4) "We're no longer a superpower. We're a super-duper power."
-Tom DeLay, explaining why America must topple Saddam Hussein in
a 2002
interview with Fox News.

5) "Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting
taxes."
-Tom DeLay, March 12, 2003

6) "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, on causes of the Columbine High School massacre, 1999

7) "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 in a radio interview, Feb. 10, 2004

8) "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, during a debate in Congress on increasing the
minimum wage,
April 23, 1996

9) "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, in a CNN interview, Dec. 19, 1995 *