125 Quotes by Tom Coburn

the presence of them certainly designates life and to say it otherwise, logically, is schizophrenic.

We are in essence, through an American taxpayers' loan, subsidizing the Chinese to take more of our technology,

The proof, of course, will be in the details of how we stay together,

We find ourselves in significant difficulties as a nation,

Is relying on foreign precedent and selecting and choosing a foreign precedent to create a bias outside of the laws of this country, is that good behavior?

This is a moral question, Not an economic issue.

A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, ... When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential, my heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization, less finger-pointing, less bitterness, less mindless partisanship.

A clear lesson in this tragedy is that one point person tends to be more effective than many point persons, ... We need to conduct oversight before the fact, not after the fact when it is too late to undo mistakes.

That record doesn't hold up to the smell test that has been presented here today and it's a little bit disturbing to me because it's this subtle way of trying to say you are not who you really are,