194 Quotes by John Cornyn

If you've got air conditioning, clean water, toilets that work where you are, don't come back to Beaumont,

When it rains, it pours – figuratively and literally.

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.

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

I’m afraid, is that there are a number of groups who really don’t want a fair-minded judge who has an openness to both sides of the argument. Rather, they want judges who will impose their liberal agenda on the American people; views so liberal that they cannot prevail at the ballot box.

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.

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.

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.

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.’