Top 35 John Cornyn Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “When it rains, it pours – figuratively and literally.”

— John Cornyn

2. “Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas.”

— John Cornyn

3. “If we can make Washington more like Texas, the whole country will be a winner.”

— John Cornyn

4. “Most people in America don’t believe that “God” is a dirty word, but the sad fact is that some Americans are left to wonder whether the Supreme Court might have greater regard for it if it was.”

— John Cornyn

5. “I don’t know whether John Roberts has a twin, perhaps a sister or, uh, someone with a Hispanic last name.”

— John Cornyn

6. “Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife.”

— John Cornyn

7. “The spread of democracy, the new foundation of the rule of law, and the creation of fledgling representative governments that honor and respect human rights-together these actions spell out the increasing marginalization of the terrorists, as they have fewer and fewer places to run and hide.”

— John Cornyn

8. “The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.”

— John Cornyn

9. “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

10. “I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.”

— John Cornyn

11. “I want judges on the Supreme Court who will respect the words and the meaning of the Constitution, the laws enacted by Congress and the laws enacted by state legislatures.”

— John Cornyn

12. “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

13. “But I think the – what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we’re seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn’t going to change itself, then we’re going to change Washington. And I think that’s what we’re seeing.”

— John Cornyn

14. “The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.”

— John Cornyn

15. “People are tired of just yelling at the TV set. They actually are going to turn out and vote.”

— John Cornyn

16. “The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence.”

— John Cornyn

17. “There is no doubt where the founding fathers stood on this issue. They believed that people of faith should be permitted to express themselves in public. They believed that this country was big enough and free enough to allow expression of on enormous variety of views and beliefs.”

— John Cornyn

18. “Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents.”

— John Cornyn

19. “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

20. “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

21. “I do not believe the border is secure and I still believe we have a long, long way to go.”

— John Cornyn

22. “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

23. “A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws.”

— John Cornyn

24. “Sometimes, it might be called conservative; sometimes it might be called liberal. But the point is that the meaning of the Constitution and other laws should not change unless we the people change them.”

— John Cornyn

25. “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

26. “A vast majority of Republicans are on the record saying that they believe the Violence Against Women Act should be reauthorized. Let me be clear: I believe that Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized.”

— John Cornyn

27. “Richard and I, along with millions of Americans – including even Joe Donnelly – believe that life is a gift from God. To try and construe his words as anything other than a restatement of that belief is irresponsible and ridiculous.”

— John Cornyn

28. “America deserves a nominee who reveres the law, not one whose service on the bench is conditioned on political promises.”

— John Cornyn

29. “Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.”

— John Cornyn

30. “Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.”

— John Cornyn

31. “I’m afraid, is that there are a number of groups who really don’t want a fair-minded judge who has an openness to both sides of the argument. Rather, they want judges who will impose their liberal agenda on the American people; views so liberal that they cannot prevail at the ballot box.”

— John Cornyn

32. “Justices are not politicians. They don’t run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.”

— John Cornyn

33. “I want judges on the Supreme Court who will not use that position to impose their personal policy preferences or political agenda on the American people.”

— John Cornyn

34. “This country has gotten seriously off track under the Supreme Court when it went so far as to limit the right of even private citizens to freely express their religious views in public.”

— John Cornyn

35. “I’m speaking of the ability of people of faith to freely express their beliefs in the public square.”

— John Cornyn