Henry Hyde Quotes

It is a pipe dream to think that that bill is going to the floor and be voted on.

I think the first order of business after the vote on the articles of impeachment is censure.

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promises of those.

The last I checked, this is an election, and in an election we play politics.

Some people think elections are a game: who's up or who's down. It's about our country. It's about our kids' future. It's about all of us together. Some of us put ourselves out there and do this against some difficult odds. We do it, each one of us, against difficult odds. We do it because we care about our country. Some of us are right, and some of us are not. Some of us are ready, and some of us are not. Some of us know what we will do on day one, and some of us haven't thought that through.

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.

I know there's an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing.

What the Des Moines Register said - you know, there were coin - I think there were half a dozen coin flips - a fairly chaotic type situation. At the end of the day, no matter how it's recounted, it will break roughly even. I love and respect the caucus process in Iowa. See, and I don't have to say it, because they voted already.

A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

When you're looking for votes, you are looking for votes from everybody, particularly the powerful.

Every call you make, every door you knock, every friend you register to vote could make the difference.

You have to be organized, that you have to vote even when it's not exciting.

Winston Churchill used to say that we, Americans, try every other option before we finally do the right thing. After everything else is exhausted we eventually do the right thing and I think that's true for Congress as well. And it's important for Americans to remember that politics has always been messy.

I've never voted, no.

I think politics are a part of life, so I have no resistance to it, but it's not something I set out to do.

I don't know what's going to happen. But I will say this, you're going to have a lot of very unhappy people. And I think, frankly, for the Republicans to disenfranchise all those people, because if that happens, they're not voting and the Republicans lose.

I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.

Vote for war allowed war only after all else failed.

I can't even vote in America!

I'm definitely voting for First Gentleman.

I make a living off (politicians), so I can't knock 'em. Every time we elect some fellow we think he's terrible and then when we get another one in he's worse. So, I am always in favor of keeping the one we've got and let the other go.

We have something happening that actually makes the Republican Party probably the biggest political story anywhere in the world. Everybody's writing about it. All over Europe, all over the world they're talking about it. Millions of people are coming in to vote.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.