TOM DELAY QUOTES

1. Confidence: I AM the Federal Government.

2. Vietnam Draft: So many minority youths had volunteered…that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like myself.

3. Power: We're no longer a superpower. We're a super-duper power."

4. Sermon: 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.

5. Stability: 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."

6. Constitution: 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.

7. Constitution II: 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

8. Foreign Policy: My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.

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

10. Terrorism: In short, it is the position of the people of the United States, as expressed by their representatives in Congress, that Israel's fight is our fight. And so shall it be until the last terrorist on earth is in a cell or a cemetery.

11. Feminism Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.

12. Politics: .The party of Tom Delay, the party of Rush Limbaugh, the party of Sean Hannity, the party of Michael Savage would not be the party of Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior.

13. Criticism: Dick Armey was blinded by ambition.

14. Indictment: I’ve been indicted for rules that don’t even exist.

15. Judges: The judges need to be intimidated. They need to uphold the Constitution. (If they don't behave) we're going to go after them in a big way.

16. Leadership: 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.

17. Wages: 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.

18. Goal: By the time we finish this poker game there may not be a federal government left -which would suit me just fine.

19. Targets: I would like to eliminate the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the HUD, the National Endowment for the arts. We ought to zero them out. The National Endowment for the Humanities. We ought to zero them out. We're going to completely redesign our government.

20. Resignation: After many weeks of personal prayerful thinking and analysis, I have come to the conclusion that it is time to close this public service chapter of my life. It’s time to begin opening new chapters and pursuing new opportunities to engage in the important cultural and political battles of our day from outside the arena of the U.S. House of Representatives...I refuse to allow liberal Democrats an opportunity to steal this seat with a negative, personal campaign....I just realized that my constituents don't deserve this, they deserve a Republican. I think I could have won this seat but it would have been nasty, it would have cost a fortune to do it. The challenge has always been in the interest of the constituents' cause and the Republican majority. I'm more interested in growing the Republican majority than my own future.