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John Cornyn
1952 • American • Politician
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Showing 39 quotesI 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
Nothing makes the minority leader more mad than when his side is forced to play by its own rules.— John Cornyn
Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.— John Cornyn
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
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
But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are.— John Cornyn
I don't know whether John Roberts has a twin, perhaps a sister or, uh, someone with a Hispanic last name.— John Cornyn
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
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
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
Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.— John Cornyn
I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control.— John Cornyn
I think that what people want is for government to function... not through temper tantrums and saying we are not going to participate, we are not going to play ball.— John Cornyn