"Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan.……" — Robert Byrd
"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 in the political arena."
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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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More Albatross Quotes
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The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art
— Stephen Stills
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Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are,…
— Stephen Stills
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I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the…
— Seamus Heaney
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A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the…
— Alexander Agassiz
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Of all the ships that have been devoted to biological explorations of the sea, none has surpassed the endeavors conducted…
— Paul Bartsch
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I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life,…
— Jessica Brown Findlay
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But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington…
— Leon Kass
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That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remember it,…
— Joss Whedon
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Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do,…
— Joss Whedon
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The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I…
— Martin Amis
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It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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