John Cornyn Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally

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

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.

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

I don't support an amnesty.(Cornyn) demands an ongoing focus on security and workplace enforcement before considering steps to grant legal status, let alone citizenship.

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

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

You can always find a reason to say no. It's the easiest vote. It's also not exactly a red badge of courage.