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John Cornyn Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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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.

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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.



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



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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



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



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One of the dangers of being here [the Senate] a while is you may have been on record directly and diametrically opposed to what one is saying today.



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I'm speaking of the ability of people of faith to freely express their beliefs in the public square.



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



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





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