John Cornyn III Quotes

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

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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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• By the Obama administration’s reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.

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• The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• When it rains, it pours – figuratively and literally.

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• 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.

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

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• Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.’

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• 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.

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Birth:	2nd February, 1952
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

John Cornyn III was born in Houston, Texas, USA. He is an American Republican politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States Senator from Texas since 2002. He is the current Senate Majority Whip for the 115th Congress. He also served as Chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and Senate Minority Whip. He earned a BA degree in Journalism from Trinity University, Texas in 1973. He earned a JD degree from St. Mary's University School of Law, Texas in 1977. He earned an LLM degree from the University of Virginia in 1995. He served as a Judge of the Texas 37th Judicial District Court, Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court from 1990-1997, and 49th Attorney General of Texas from 1999-2002. He married Sandy Hansen in 1979. They have two daughters, Danley and Haley.

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