Constitution Quote by Robert Byrd

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“Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.”

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The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological…

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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…

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And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution…

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To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be a last resort, not a first choice. I…

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It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the…

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Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations…

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It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

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The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that…

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The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and…

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Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?

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Political correctness gets in the way of all too many things in this country of ours, I am not a subscriber of political correctness…

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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…

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