Political Quotes

Thomas Coburn

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Jan 7, 2009

One of the other commitments that President-elect Obama made in his campaign--and he and I have talked about it--is a top-down review in every agency across the Federal Government about what is effective, what has metrics on it, what…

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Jan 7, 2009

One of the laws that President-elect Obama passed was the accountability and transparency law.

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Dec 9, 2008

Nobody wants anybody to lose their jobs, but the fact is this doesn't fix the problem.

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Dec 9, 2008

Nobody wants anybody to lose their jobs but the fact is this doesn't fix the problem.

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Sep 20, 2008

While accelerated by market sentiment, our decision to be regulated by the Federal Reserve is based on recognition that such regulation provides its members with full prudential supervision and access to permanent liquidity and funding.

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Oct 17, 2007

I'm part of the hippie generation, but the question is, should this be a priority for this body over the priority of women and children?

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Oct 16, 2007

Anybody who puts a priority for a local project ahead of the best interest of this country, I believe is not fulfilling their oath to the office. And that's whether they are Republican or Democrat.

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Aug 23, 2007

The prime example that the government is broken. And how do we fix that? You fix that by integrity and being confident that you will do what you say will do. And the American people said, you have been telling us this.

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Jul 3, 2007

No, they aren't published. And they're not out there. I couldn't find them if I wanted to.

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Jun 27, 2007

The prime example that the government is broken. And how do we fix that? You fix that by integrity and being confident that you will do what you say will do. And the American people said, you have been telling us this.

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