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Robert Byrd Quotes

Robert Byrd quotes

American Politician November 20, 1917

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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 somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family. Robert Byrd
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 a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends. Robert Byrd
I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst. Robert Byrd
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 congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers. Robert Byrd
Robert Byrd quote: "Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go..."
Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess? Robert Byrd
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 Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq. Robert Byrd
Robert Byrd quote: "To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of..."
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences. Robert Byrd
I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution. Robert Byrd
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 Security receipts. That's your money. Robert Byrd
Robert Byrd quote: "It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but..."
It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics. Robert Byrd
Robert Byrd quote: "Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our..."
Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world. 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. Robert Byrd
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 its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust. Robert Byrd
Robert Byrd quote: "This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through..."
This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history. Robert Byrd
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 inside out and made illegality legal. Robert Byrd

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