October 1, 2005

But he'll look good in a prison jumpsuit, won't he??

10 Mind-Numbingly Stupid Quotes by Tom DeLay

1) “So many minority youths had volunteeredÖthat 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 serve in the Vietnam War (Source)

2) “Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?”
ñTom Delay, to three young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 9, 2005 (Source)

3) “I AM the federal government.”
ñTom DeLay, to the owner of Ruth’s Chris Steak House, on why he should have been allowed to smoke a cigar, despite federal government regulations banning smoking, May 14, 2003 (Source)

4) “We’re no longer a superpower. We’re a super-duper power.”
ñTom DeLay, explaining why America must topple Saddam Hussein in 2002 interview with Fox News (Source)

5) “Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.”
ñTom DeLay, March 12, 2003 (Source)

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.”
ñTom DeLay, on causes of the Columbine High School massacre, 1999 (Source)

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 (Source)

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.”
ñTom DeLay (Source)

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.”
ñTom DeLay, during a debate in Congress on increasing the minimum wage, April 23, 1996 (Source)

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.”
ñTom DeLay, in a CNN interview, Dec. 19, 1995 (Source)

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