John Cornyn

Cornyn, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Senate Session

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A Lawyer Walks Into a Bar...

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by John Cornyn:

"Momentum continues to grow in Congress to pass legislation to protect homes, small businesses, and other private property against unreasonable government use of the power of eminent domain,"

"only reinforces the fact that the archives' efforts to be thorough in the production of documents are unprecedented."

"Tens of thousands of documents have already been released ? more than any Supreme Court nominee in history, ... And with each new release of information, it's growing increasingly difficult for the president's opponents to complain with a straight face about the need for more information."

"In my state, from the time ... the most hardened criminals are convicted of the most heinous crimes ... their case is reviewed by not only a jury of 12 of their peers but up to 23 different judges ... perhaps even more."

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

"The war on terror is not limited to Iraq. It is not limited to Afghanistan. They are but fronts in the global war we are waging today."

"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."

"It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right. 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."

"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.'"

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally."

"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."