Norm Ornstein Quotes

You've got a lot of people who privately view DeLay as so radioactive. It's not just the Texas stuff, in some ways the Texas stuff is the least of it. - Norm Ornstein

You can help, but the credibility is not going to come from HHS. Some of it could come from [Homeland Security] and FEMA, but a lot of it has to come from the president himself. - Norm Ornstein

What makes this different is it's not just a few bad apples. It's that people at the top decided to build in a kind of systemic corrupt process. That is different from what we had before. - Norm Ornstein

We're not talking about Mother Teresa here who gets caught for turning right on a red light in a state that doesnt allow such a thing... The history of Tom DeLay in Congress is that he's pushed every envelope. It is often the case that powerful people get their comeuppance because of something that a lot of people would see as a technicality. - Norm Ornstein

We now have a situation where billions of dollars of federal funds are allocated not on the basis of where it is most needed and can be spent most effectively, but according to who's sloshing the (campaign contribution) money around so they can get the earmarks. - Norm Ornstein

Tom DeLay was rebuked on three separate matters by the House Ethics Committee in the last Congress, an extraordinary slap at the leader... But they left open pending a fourth issue, which was the Ronnie Earle case in Texas. So what did the House Republicans do? They fire the chairman of the Ethics Committee. They removed two members. - Norm Ornstein

This week, I think, makes our case ... that Congress is not the deliberative body it is supposed to be. - Norm Ornstein

This is going to be one of the real critical Senate races. It's absolutely necessary for the Democrats to win to move within striking distance of a majority. If Republicans can bag the seat, it seals the majority. - Norm Ornstein

This is a place where oversight matters. - Norm Ornstein

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