"And the president is all wrong when he……" — Robert Byrd
"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 doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote."
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Robert Byrd
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29 Quotes by Robert Byrd
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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…
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Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side.…
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To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be…
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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…
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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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Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.
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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 ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give…
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This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.
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Congress is not an ATM.
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Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.
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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…
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