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Top ten Tom Delay quotes

 
 
Reply Fri 30 Sep, 2005 09:29 pm
10 Mind-Numbingly Stupid Quotes by Tom DeLay


1) "So many minority youths had volunteeredÂ…that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like myself." --Tom DeLay, 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 at the 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 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) "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, in a radio interview, Feb. 10, 2004

8) "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

9) "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

10) "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


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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Fri 30 Sep, 2005 09:37 pm
Mind-numbing. Totally stultifying.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Fri 30 Sep, 2005 10:09 pm
Please tell me you are kidding, that he didn't say those things.
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JustanObserver
 
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Reply Fri 30 Sep, 2005 11:13 pm
Quote:
Please tell me you are kidding, that he didn't say those things.


Yup, he did. Check the source. My favorite is the first one. Hilarious!
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dlowan
 
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Reply Fri 30 Sep, 2005 11:32 pm
And THIS became House majority leader, or some such?


Good grief.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 30 Sep, 2005 11:54 pm
Let me jump to the chase. People in my country elected him and people like him.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Fri 30 Sep, 2005 11:57 pm
As an aside, I'll admit to not liking decimation via quotes, as it is not all that easy for most people to speak well, and well represent themselves. Still, this is a pile.
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Sat 1 Oct, 2005 06:22 am
You have a good point, Osso, about most people not being really very articulate when speaking extemporaneously. And quotes are easy enough to take out of context. But looking at the thoughts behind these particular quotes, neither context nor syntax matters. It is the obviously twisted thinking process behind the utterances that make them so appalling.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Sat 1 Oct, 2005 06:46 am
Yeppers.

I forgive much in speech (I am used to reading court transcripts, where reality is forever set down in all its staggering inelegance) but this is way beyond a few gnarled and twisted sentences.
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JPB
 
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Reply Sat 1 Oct, 2005 08:35 am
One comment to Osso's point of being elected by the people and being popular...

One of the difficulties with our process is when an individual is named to a position of power at a national level, such as Speaker of the House, or Majority Leader, but is elected (and re-elected) only by the residents of his home state. I'm not sure Mr Delay is all that popular outside of Texas, but the rest of us have no say in the matter.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sat 1 Oct, 2005 09:53 am
Good point, J_B.
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