Tom Delay

It's not good enough to defeat somebody politically or to vilify them publicly. You have got to carpet-bomb them. You have got to destroy them.

But if the Senate or the president insist on an amnesty-type path to citizenship, it's a nonstarter, and you won't get a bill.

Today I am announcing my intention to resign my seat in the House. This is probably a big surprise for a lot of people. We ran a poll. It showed that I had a 50/50 chance of winning. Spent a lot of time praying about it, trying to seek…

I have come to the conclusion that it is time to close this public service chapter in my life.

Bring it on. My constituents know what's going on. And if they're going to do this, I think that it shows who they are and what they are.

Because I care so deeply about this district and the people in it, I refuse to allow liberal Democrats an opportunity to steal this seat with a negative, personal campaign.

Those changes in districts helped Republicans win 21 of the states 32 seats in Congress, up from 15.

Tom DeLay has said this is all about politics, that's what's at the core of it, that's what his attorney says as well.

The all-too predictable result of a vengeful investigation led by a partisan fanatic.

Ronnie Earle has stooped to a new low with his brand of prosecutorial abuse. He is trying to pull the legal equivalent of a 'do-over' since he knows very well that the charges he brought against me last week are totally manufactured and…

This act is the product of a coordinated, premeditated campaign of political retribution. The all- too predictable result of a vengeful investigation led by a partisan fanatic.

There is always fat to trim in a budget, and there are some offsets. But this is such a huge disaster starting with Katrina and now we don't know what the cost of Rita is going to be.

I think a candidate that believes in the destruction of life would have a very hard time appealing to the vast majority of the Republicans in this party.

An arrogant, out of control, unaccountable judiciary.

We will look at an arrogant, out-of-control, unaccountable judiciary, that thumbed their nose at Congress and the president when given the jurisdiction to hear this case anew and look at all the facts and make a determination.

It has nothing to do with politics, and it's disgusting to even suggest it.

The legal and political issues may be complicated, but the moral ones are not. A young woman in Florida is being dehydrated and starved to death.

If, as it seems to be the case, this innocent, disabled, but fully alive woman is marked for death by starvation and dehydration, how can we live with ourselves if we don't give her one more chance to live?

I say again, the legal and political issues may be complicated, but the moral ones are not. A young woman in Florida is being dehydrated and starved to death.

This judge in Florida wants to pull her feeding tube and let her starve for two weeks. That is barbaric.

House Republicans have changed party rules to allow their leader, Tom DeLay, to stay as their leader if he's indicted by a Texas grand jury on state political corruption charges.

Calling for Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation is as bad as saying the war is unwinnable.

Calling for Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation is as bad as saying the war is unwinnable.

To call people liars and crooks and, particularly, in thinking that you were off mike, just shows you who the real person is.