Robert Byrd Quotes

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• One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital…
• Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law…
• To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to…
• We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and…
• It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
• Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.
• Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.
• The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this…
• This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.
• Congress is not an ATM.
• Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.
• Can it be that we, too, are ready to embrace the foul concepts of atheism? Somebody is tampering with America's soul, I leave it to…
• I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old…
• I am a former Kleagle [recruiter] of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County. The Klan is needed today as never before and I am…
• It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is…
• My old mom told me, 'Robert, you can't go to heaven if you hate anybody.' We practice that. There are white niggers. I've seen a…
• The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons,…
• To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences
• That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on…
• The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social…

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