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If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.

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Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger.
Richard Shelby
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Waitley
The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
Vladimir Lenin
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir
One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.
Stuart Bowen
When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.
Rahm Emanuel
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
Titus Maccius Plautus
Delay is preferable to error.
Thomas Jefferson
Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.
Howard Dean
Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.
Joseph Heller
I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.
Dizzy Dean
Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.
Duncan Hunter
You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Ovid
I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.
Chris Bell
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
C. Northcote Parkinson
No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the advent of help from the loyal States.
Henry Villard
I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult.
Daniela Hantuchova
This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.
Jim Hightower
It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.
Jay Alan Sekulow
The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.
Milarepa
None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
Archibald Alexander
Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.
Martin Frost
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Tacitus
Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.
John Goodman
Delay in justice is injustice.
Walter Savage Landor
I grew up in Tom DeLay's district.
Paul Begala
I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard.
Bill Dixon
While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.
John Engler
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.
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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Thomas Paine