Henry Hyde

“This is not a matter of private morality. It's a matter of public morality.”

“There are few things more corrosive to the civil discourse and to the trust that is essential to the democratic process than the unchallenged brandishing of baseless statistics.”

“I don't need a poll to know that most of my constituents believe in the sanctity of the unborn.”

“Some issues are beyond partisanship.”

“We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life—the unborn—without diminishing the value of all human life.”

“When the time comes to be judged, I don't want to ask the Lord, 'Do you believe in capital punishment?' I want to ask, 'Do you believe in the mercy of God?'”

“Get a life. The prying, peeping and snooping that has become a national pastime must stop.”

“The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can put them in a television set and sell them is, I think, the most frightening thing about our time.”

“The rule of law is the bedrock of our democracy.”

“I would certainly say that we have to be very careful with the use of anonymous sources.”

“Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.”