125 Quotes by Tom Coburn

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government – from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration – could fill committee agendas for years.

You deliver 2,000 babies or better – 3,000 by that time. And that’s, you know, at minimum, three people each. And then if you take grandparents or grandparents of siblings and aunts and uncles, you know, you get – a 100,000 votes outta that.

One poll showed that Americans have a higher opinion of witches, the IRS and hemorrhoids than Congress.

The ripping and tearing of an unborn child from his mother’s womb through the hands of another, and we say, “That’s fine; you have a constitutional right to do that.”

And I thought I would just share with you what science says today about silicone breast implants. If you have them, you’re healthier than if you don’t. In fact, there’s no science that shows that silicone breast implants are detrimental and, in fact, they make you healthier.

When we have heartbeat and brain waves, we refuse to accept it as the presence of life – this lack of logic of which we approach this issue because we like and we favor convenience over ethics. We favor convenience over the hard parts of life that actually make us grow.

I’m very disturbed at the picture that was painted by Senator Ted Kennedy that Samuel Alito is not a man of his word, that he is dishonest. The implication that he is not reliable I don’t think is a fair characterization of what I’ve read.

I asked Chief Justice John Roberts about this definition of life – you know, what is life? The Supreme Court can’t figure it out or doesn’t want us to figure it out; the fact that we know that there is no life if there’s no heartbeat and brainwaves.

I’m proud of our country that we elected Barack Obama. I mean, it says something about us nationally. You know, it’s kind of like crowning your checker when you get to the end of your checker board. Here’s another thing that says America’s special: Barack Obama, president of the United States.