Tom DeLay People Quotations

Sure, when you get this number of people, there are stories of sexual exploitation. But in interviewing these employees one-on-one, there was no evidence of any of that going on. No evidence of sweatshops as portrayed by the national media. It's a beautiful island with beautiful people who are happy about what's happening.

People need to be doing their jobs right now,

It is expensive, but at the same time, it's incredibly important, because the return (in results) to the people of the United States and the world is also very important.

I think people who are saying things now are, by their own comments, undermining their own credibility,

We have people in need and we are going to have to provide for those needs. We have no choice. Our fellow man needs us. We have to reach out and do what we can.

We don't need a hundred hearings going on calling people out of the field to testify... people need to be doing their jobs now,

You can't deal with 5 million people and not have some waste in money. But the bulk is going to go to the people and the property that deserve it.

Today we will pass a Medicare prescription drug benefit because for us, fulfilling America's promise is not just a slogan, it's a commitment to meet the needs of the American people as we face the 21st century,

We need to create an interstate system, ... We created an interstate highway system. Surely we can create an interstate transmission system so that we can get energy to the people who need it.

There are about a thousand churches right here in Houston, and a lot of them are helping people with housing, but FEMA says they can't reimburse faith-based organizations,

A lot of people just really don't want to talk about these issues. These children -- many of them have been severely abused and neglected -- have been taken from their home. They have issues they need to deal with and what happens to them is something that people really don't want to face, but we have to face it,

They think if they just get a little bit angrier, and a little bit meaner, and a little bit louder, the American people will start hating the president as much as they do,

People are too quick to give up their responsibility and duty as congressmen to other people, ... We are more than capable of looking at it.

People that just throw numbers out, not knowing what they're talking about, I think it's pretty irresponsible.

It's incredibly irresponsible to try to convince the American people that there is no problem.,

The Iraqi people are starting to believe that the United States and the coalition forces are serious.

You can't attack the economy by taxing the people that are in this tent providing jobs.

These are people that don't want to protect the American people... [T]hey will do anything, spend all the time and resources they can, to avoid confronting evil.

It's never been proven that air toxics are hazardous to people.

The detractors from our successes might want to congratulate Saddam Hussein on his ability to hide them or destroy them, ... But there's no doubt in anybody's mind, including people like France and Germany and others, that he had weapons of mass destruction.