Political Quotes

Robert Dornan

The Public Record

Quotes by year · 1994–199684 total · peak 1996 (59)
1994: 9 quotes1995: 16 quotes1996: 59 quotes
Jul 30, 1996

Karol Wojtyla. And Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and a couple of Catholics, Lech Walesa, pulled down the evil empire. It is amazing.

govinfo.gov
Jul 30, 1996

Let us reconstruct that list that Mr. Clinton finds himself on: Fidel Castro, Bill Clinton, Mu'ammar Qadhafi of Libya, and is Hafez Assad from Syria on there? But Rafsanjani is, the Iranian controlling oligarchy there in Tehran.

govinfo.gov
Jul 30, 1996

Well let me show how the courage of a John Joyce, of a Robert Casey, former Governor of the State where my mother was raised, the beautiful Pennsylvania; let me tell you about a letter dated today that was just given to me by Edward J…

govinfo.gov
Jul 30, 1996

I thank the gentleman. If there is anything I know about theology or philosophy or rhetoric or logic or ethics more than you do, it is only because I am years older than you are and you are catching fast on me. Before you are my tender…

govinfo.gov
Jul 26, 1996

Right, and how could a good Irish Catholic politician tell me not to talk about abortion, the chief moral issue? And now we are debating homosexual sodomy marriage and killing a baby by puncturing his head and taking its brains out when…

govinfo.gov
Jul 26, 1996

I think I scare some liberals when I get passionate. Have you ever seen me carry that passion or any ill will in the Speaker's lobby or in the Cloakroom or anywhere in the Halls of this place?

govinfo.gov
Jul 26, 1996

Get this on Michael McCurry. I ask unanimous consent to put in the information my staff has gotten me. I did not give the year he was born. October 27, 1954. I first flew in a jet 6 days before that. He attended Princeton from 1972 to…

govinfo.gov
Jul 26, 1996

It is not forceps. They do not even have an instrument of death for this. They use Mendelson's scissors and they shove them in and open them up to tear the back of the skull to take the brains out. They had to adapt a tool to do that.

govinfo.gov
Jul 23, 1996

I think we have to reinvent the wheel here. I think we have to have a whole new structure to help the poor so those without the benefit of good legal counsel can get it. But I think Legal Services Corporation is part of defunding the left…

govinfo.gov
Jul 23, 1996

I would say when they are getting the cuts we are giving them, they would be smart to live up to them.

govinfo.gov
Jul 12, 1996

On policy, with few exceptions, abortion being the most notable, the country is conservative. Is that not a given? Even Ross Perot agrees with that. The American people say they want smaller government, lower taxes, balanced budgets, less…

govinfo.gov
Jul 12, 1996

I did not believe when I came here 20 years ago we would ever be discussing homosexuals have the same rights as the sacrament of holy matrimony, and I predict, that within 3 or 4 years we are going to be discussing pedophilia only for…

govinfo.gov
Jun 19, 1996

I am writing this letter on behalf of my husband, Specialist First Class Donald H. Dugan, and my family. My husband was killed disarming an explosive device while deployed in Bosnia. I would like to take this opportunity to let everyone…

govinfo.gov
Jun 13, 1996

I wish you could understand how silly it sounds, all these references to star wars, to talk about all these other theater missile defense systems that are working. Where do my colleagues think all that technology came from? This is simply…

govinfo.gov
Jun 6, 1996

The amazing thing is how often in our lives we pass heroes all the time and never notice that they are any different than anybody else. It is just that they volunteered. They were a vanguard. They extended themselves.

govinfo.gov
May 29, 1996

Let me tell the gentlewoman, as somebody who started investigating Little Rock in 1992, before the Clintons were in the White house, I think Little Rock, just Little Rock, in an otherwise great State, and only in the field of politics with…

govinfo.gov
May 29, 1996

In closing, they are taking bets in our cloakroom that Al Gore will run one heck of a race in October of this very year for President of the United States.

govinfo.gov
May 29, 1996

I agree. Just to clear the record, for those who were not forced to take 4 years of Shakespeare in school, that Portia, because I well know the gentlewoman's distinguished name, means a lady lawyer of exceeding skill, as in Portia from the…

govinfo.gov
May 29, 1996

No one other than the gentleman has investigated the Vince Foster thing or analyzed it. And the line of Vince Foster's that comes back to us from the grave about the whole Whitewater mess and the IRS problems was, these are Vince Foster's…

govinfo.gov
May 23, 1996

Well, you made a credible case earlier to me on the floor, not just in humor, that if he pursued this and got a finding of the Supreme Court that he truly was on active duty, at our press conference, one of the press, Less Consolving, of a…

govinfo.gov
May 23, 1996

I remember the baby's middle name, Ruby. I forget the first name. Maybe it is Susan Ruby Paxon. So that makes it 236. So it is official. Let me just thank you, Mr. Chairman, and if you would tell us briefly why you as a World War II…

govinfo.gov
May 15, 1996

I have talked to the parliamentarians and my honor was impugned at several points during Mr. Gunderson's strange point of personal privilege. If I had been here, I could have taken his words down time after time and had them stricken from…

govinfo.gov
May 14, 1996

Tensions threaten to rip apart our cities and neighborhoods. Crime and violence is of epidemic proportions in most of our cities among the young. Children take weapons to school. Broken families, poverty, drugs, teenage pregnancy…

govinfo.gov
May 14, 1996

I have the vote on the DeLauro amendment last year when she was beaten 230 to 196, and this amendment became, my amendment became, public law to protect human life. The vote was 230 to 196. We know it is not going to change much. I know we…

govinfo.gov
May 14, 1996

My staff has helped me, for those who follow these proceedings, Mr. Chairman, tell the world and the whole country, sea to shining sea, it is number 10 U.S. Code, 1093B. That is Public Law 104-106. It is law. If I am an extremist, so are…

govinfo.gov

Politicians like Robert Dornan