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Robert Byrd Quotes

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Congress is not an ATM  (Robert Byrd Quotes) 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 mone  (Robert Byrd Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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  (Robert Byrd Quotes) 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, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons  (Robert Byrd Quotes) 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 anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia. It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state in the union  (Robert Byrd Quotes) 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 speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship  (Robert Byrd Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics  (Robert Byrd Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world  (Robert Byrd Quotes) Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed  (Robert Byrd Quotes) 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 in jeopardy. That is why I wrote ‘Losing America.’  (Robert Byrd Quotes) Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess  (Robert Byrd Quotes) 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 Quotes) Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother  (Robert Byrd Quotes) To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences  (Robert Byrd Quotes) This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history  (Robert Byrd Quotes) 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 Quotes) Political correctness gets in the way of all too many things in this country of ours, I am not a subscriber of political correctness by any means, shape or form  (Robert Byrd Quotes) America’s true power lies not in its will to dominate but in its ability to inspire  (Robert Byrd Quotes) 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 Quotes)