Henry Hyde Quotes

• I certainly would like to prevent, if I could legally, anybody having an abortion, a rich woman, a middle-class woman, or a poor woman. Unfortunately, the only vehicle available is the…Medicaid bill.

  Henry Hyde

  Class, Abortion, Bills

  "40 Years After Roe v. Wade, We Still Fall Short of Reproductive Justice" by Terry O'Neill, www.usnews.com. January 18, 2013.

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• This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted

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  Mean, Abortion, Understanding

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• There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall

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  Political, Looks, Politics

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• The law exists to protect the weak from the strong.

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  Strong, Law, Weak

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• Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.

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  Hate, Liberty, Speech

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• The anger I felt when the ACLU tried to disenfranchise me because my religious stayed with me. These are dangerous people who make dangerous arguments. Some powerful members of the cultural elites in our country are so paralyzed by the fear that theistic notions might reassert themselves in the official activities of government that they will go to Gestapo lengths to inhibit such expression.

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  Christian, Country, Religious

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• The skeptical relativist attempt to mandate a naked public square is undemocratic. It is also a danger to democracy.

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  Christian, Religious, Squares

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• We are going to follow wherever the facts lead us.

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  Facts

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• Suffice it to say Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.

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  Good Friend, Long, Wife

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• The founding fathers gave the House of Representatives one function when it comes to cleansing the office of the presidency and that is impeachment, .. Whether or not a resolution of censure is appropriate is something beyond our constitutional authority.

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  Father, Office, House

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• I'm opposed to censure, .. Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either.

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  Bangs, Certainty, Discussion

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• I think it's fair to have a vote on a resolution for censure.

  Henry Hyde

  Thinking, Vote, Resolution

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