Tom Delay

So many minority youths had volunteered…that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like myself." --Tom DeLay, explaining at the 1988 GOP convention why he and vice presidential nominee Dan Quayle did not fight in the Vietnam War

- A racist quote that he made

Tom Delay is well known as the republican who threw a huge tantrum because the owner of a restraunt told him to stop smoking. He said "I AM the federal law". He said this despite being jailed for money theft in the Jack Abramoff scandal 6 years or so later.

"Now, tell me thy truth, boys, is this fun?

- Him talking to three hurricane evacuees.

He once said that the "evolution theory" caused the Columbine Massacre.