Top 40 Tom DeLay Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents.”

— Tom DeLay

2. “Just sprinkle a little lime to neutralize the acid.”

— Tom DeLay

3. “Calculated and craven political stunt.”

— Tom DeLay

4. “Until we begin to discover the national values that for centuries have allowed us to rise above our natures and act as civilized men and women, our country will continue to suffer the steady deterioration in standards that disturbs us all.”

— Tom DeLay

5. “It’s the arrogance of man to think that man can change the climate of the world. Only nature can change the climate. A volcano, for instance.”

— Tom DeLay

6. “Nothing’s worse than a woman know-it-all.”

— Tom DeLay

7. “Forgiveness does not absolve you from consequences.”

— Tom DeLay

8. “Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.”

— Tom DeLay

9. “My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.”

— Tom DeLay

10. “I am the Federal Government.”

— Tom DeLay

11. “A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.”

— Tom DeLay

12. “Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate change and, represents a significant commercial opportunity.”

— Tom DeLay

13. “The best that can be said about embryonic stem cell research is that it is scientific exploration into the potential benefits of killing human beings.”

— Tom DeLay

14. “We are witnessing the criminalization of conservative politics.”

— Tom DeLay

15. “Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.”

— Tom DeLay

16. “A woman can take care of the family.”

— Tom DeLay

17. “Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.”

— Tom DeLay

18. “I don’t believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church.”

— Tom DeLay

19. “The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners of this Earth. It must be war without quarter, pursuit without rest, victory without qualification.”

— Tom DeLay

20. “Christianity offers the only viable, reasonable, definitive answer to the questions of Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? Does life have any meaningful purpose?”

— Tom DeLay

21. “You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.”

— Tom DeLay

22. “Only business can build a low-carbon economy. Business is all about seeing ideas and growing them. Businesses have the resources, the people, the technical skills to make things happen – and they have the channels to market.”

— Tom DeLay

23. “You can support the troops but not the president.”

— Tom DeLay

24. “Only Christianity offers a comprehensive worldview that covers all areas of life and thought – every aspect of creation. Only Christianity offers a way to live in response to the realities that we find in this world – only Christianity.”

— Tom DeLay

25. “Progressive companies regard climate change as an opportunity rather than a threat.”

— Tom DeLay

26. “If Israel falls to the terrorists, the entire free world will tremble. To forsake Israel now would be tantamount to forsaking Great Britain in 1940. It is unthinkable, and it is unthinkable because the world wants to know if we believe freedom is worth fighting for.”

— Tom DeLay

27. “Clinton’s bombing campaign has caused all of these problems to explode.”

— Tom DeLay

28. “That’s pretty tough talk from a guy who has fewer days at work this year than he has houses.”

— Tom DeLay

29. “For all its faults, it is partisanship – based on core principles- that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and new leaders.”

— Tom DeLay

30. “American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy.”

— Tom DeLay

31. “I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone has lost his moral compass and has to go to jail to find it, then I believe it will make him a much better person.”

— Tom DeLay

32. “Newt Gingrich is an incredible leader. He is a leader of our time, and he’s going to lead us into the future. And we’re going to accomplish the things that we’ve all dreamed of.”

— Tom DeLay

33. “Does life have any meaningful purpose?”

— Tom DeLay

34. “Howard Dean is a cruel and extremist demagogue. And Howard Dean is as ignorant on John Ashcroft as he is on national security. If this cruel, loudmouth extremist is the cream of the Democrat crop, next November’s going to make the 1984 election look like a squeaker.”

— Tom DeLay

35. “It’s never been proven that air toxics are hazardous to people.”

— Tom DeLay

36. “It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.”

— Tom DeLay

37. “I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.”

— Tom DeLay

38. “I’ve been indicted for rules that don’t even exist.”

— Tom DeLay

39. “Temper your future actions.”

— Tom DeLay

40. “Without any coherent international blueprint the White House has bombed its way around the globe, while dropping troops far and wide for ill-defined peacemaking duties. This policy has gutted the American military which now must be rebuilt.”

— Tom DeLay

41. “In short, it is the position of the people of the United States, as expressed by their representatives in Congress, that Israel’s fight is our fight. And so shall it be until the last terrorist on earth is in a cell or a cemetery.”

— Tom DeLay