John Cornyn Quotes
And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid.
John Cornyn
United States Senator
The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.
John Cornyn
United States Senator
The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.
John Cornyn
United States Senator
I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.
John Cornyn
United States Senator
Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.
John Cornyn
United States Senator
If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.
John Cornyn
United States Senator
I can't imagine the American people voting for Hillary Clinton to serve basically the third term of Barack Obama. And I think whoever the Republican primary voters and the delegates nominate, I will support that nominee wholeheartedly against a Hillary Clinton candidacy.
John Cornyn
United States Senator
We need a straitjacket around Congress when it comes to spending so that they are forced to do what 49 states are required to do and what every family business and every family is required to do, and that's live within their means.
John Cornyn
United States Senator
I don't really think it's appropriate for me to be picking and choosing in the primaries. It's pretty dumb politics for a Republican to choose between Republicans in a contested primary because obviously you're going to be offending some people.
John Cornyn
United States Senator
I don't know whether John Roberts has a twin, perhaps a sister or, uh, someone with a Hispanic last name.
John Cornyn
United States Senator
You can always find a reason to say no. It's the easiest vote. It's also not exactly a red badge of courage.
John Cornyn
United States Senator
Nothing makes the minority leader more mad than when his side is forced to play by its own rules.
John Cornyn
United States Senator
When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally.
John Cornyn
United States Senator
Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of 'health insurance,' which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill.
John Cornyn
United States Senator
I am pleased to report that Texas is known for having one of the strongest set of open government laws in our Nation. And ever since that experience, I have long believed that our federal government could use 'a little Texas sunshine.'
John Cornyn
United States Senator
Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents.
John Cornyn
United States Senator
If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.
John Cornyn
United States Senator
I think many people simply feel like they don't recognize their country anymore.
John Cornyn
United States Senator
People are tired of just yelling at the TV set. They actually are going to turn out and vote.
John Cornyn
United States Senator
The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
John Cornyn
United States Senator
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