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...DeLay: (Laughs) First of all, that's not high living. That's going to where people are. When you go and you speak to a group, they usually are not meeting in Clute, Texas. Their meetings are in resorts that they have chosen-not what I have chosen. My trips are all for legitimate reason and I was very much involved in advancing the conservative agenda overseas-whether it's working against Christian persecution in China or advancing the conservative cause in England with Margaret Thatcher or pushing freedom and democracy in Moscow or getting persecuted Jews...
...DeLay: Oh, the private planes. Yeah...
...DeLay: The other way to say it is: I did the commercial route when I was running in 1994. I think did about 89 districts the whole year. If I'd done it by private plane, I could have tripled the number of districts. And that's why we started using private planes, instead of going commercial and doing one event in one district per day, you can hit three districts in one day. And you can really knock 'em out doing what is important, and that is electing conservatives to Congress...
...TIME: The campaign finance group Political Moneyline discovered that you'd used an R.J. Reynolds Tobacco plane to go to your arraignment. I know that's perfectly legal. But some people look at that and say: Tom DeLay just doesn...
...DeLay: (Chuckles) Well, that's usually my detractors. There's nothing wrong with it. They had a plane available. My schedule was such that I couldn't do it commercially-that I had to get up there and then get back and do my job. And that's the only plane that was available at the time...