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Congress is not an ATM.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Aggravation
Atm
Congress
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Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Running
Campaigns
Mother
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This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Peace
War
Sleepwalking
Necessary
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To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
War
Horrible
Thinking
Contemplate
Experiences
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If the voters really understood what we were up to they'd vote us out of office.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Office
Political
Term Limits
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America’s true power lies not in its will to dominate but in its ability to inspire.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
America
Lying
True Power
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Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Aggravation
Appreciate
Approval
Approval Rating
Congress
Recess
Wonder
Every Time
Ratings
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Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Constitution
Ideals
World
Greatest
Set
Export
Forth
Realized
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It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Money
American Politics
Ideas
Principles
Supreme
American
Reigns
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Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Accomplished
Iraq
President
President Bush
Vice President
Vices
Bush
Cheney
Failed
Laid
Mission
Vice
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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 / Former United States Senator
Bitter
Bitterness
Constitution
Fate
Father
Forgetfulness
Partisanship
Extreme
Seen
Fathers
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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 to you who that somebody is.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
America
Scary
Soul
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Saddam Hussein is a threat, but the threat is not so great that we must be stampeded to provide such authority to this president just weeks before an election.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Election
Hussein
President
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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 in the political arena.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Ku Klux Klan
Mistake
Political
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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 by any means, shape or form.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Country
Mean
Political
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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 Social Security receipts. That's your money
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Iraq
President
Want
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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 Social Security receipts. That's your money.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Receipts
Security
Social Security
Money Your Will
American Taxpayer
Borrow
Directly
Money Will Your
Taxpayer
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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 / Former United States Senator
Legal
Abandoned
Enormous
Law
Legality
Psychological
Sides
Cloak
Recognized
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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 and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Men
Germany
Law
Majority
Unjust
Witness
Stopped
Cruel
Motives
Italy
Mussolini
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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 this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
War
Administration
Billions
Comfort
Dollars
Give Me
Iraq
Mistake
Ongoing
Seeking
Strife
Mistakes
Billions Of Dollars
This Administration
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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 / Former United States Senator
America
Constitution Of The United States
Jeopardy
Liberty
Losing
People
Undercut
People America American
Attack
Liberties
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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 / Former United States Senator
Family
Four
Important
People
Things In Life
Wall
Way
Most
Life Family Me
Life Me Important
Thing
Around
Somewhere
Life Family Look
Days
Look
Hospital
Over
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
Walls
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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 / Former United States Senator
Dust
Fall
Rights
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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 / Former United States Senator
Dust
Feet
Heard
Individual
Rights
Senate
Speak
Falls
Last
Minority
Necessary
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There is ample evidence that the horrific events of Sept. 11 have been carefully manipulated to switch public focus from Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, who masterminded the Sept. 11th attacks, to Saddam Hussein, who did not.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Als
Focus
Hussein
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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 / Former United States Senator
Achievement
Congress
Despair
Half
Worst
Half Century
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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 / Former United States Senator
Disagree
Duty
Liberty
Misguided
Partisanship
People
Protect
Speaks Out
Vigilant
Extreme
American People
Awaken
Citizen
Happening
Lest
Trampled
Underfoot
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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 doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Vote
Nominee
Shall
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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 congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Cases
Congress
Despite
Framers
Heritage
Liberty
People
Preservation
Separation
Willing
Constitutional
Walk
Hopes
Liberties
Placed
Powers
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I am a former Kleagie of the Klu Klux Klan in Raleigh County and adjoining counties of the state, having been appainted to this office [by] Mr. J. L. Baskin of Arlington, Virginia, in 1942... It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state in the union.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Ku Klux Klan
Order
Virginia
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I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Fighting
Patriotic
Race
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My old mom told me, 'Robert, you can't go to heaven if you hate anybody.' We practice that. There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Mom
Country
Hate
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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 truly must question the judgment of any president who can say that a massive unprovoked military attack on a nation which is over 50 percent children is ‘in the highest moral traditions of our country.'
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Peace
Children
Country
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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 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 / Former United States Senator
Mass Destruction
Warfare
Wmds In Iraq
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He (Pres. Bush) rightly decided that it was far better to return all Haitians than to encourage, deliberately or not, tens of thousands of people to take to the open ocean in unseaworthy, overcrowded boats.... When the Haitians sense the door has been cracked open, they will once again prepare their rag-tag armada and set sail for the land of plenty - America.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Ocean
Doors
Land
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There is no doubt that constitutional freedoms will never be abolished in one fell swoop, for the American people cherish their freedoms, and would not tolerate such a loss if they could perceive it. But the erosion of freedom rarely comes as an all-out frontal assault but rather as a gradual, noxious creeping, cloaked in secrecy, and glossed over by reassurances of greater security.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
Erosion
Loss
People
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Today I weep for my country. No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper. ... Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned. We flaunt our superpower status with arrogance....After war has ended the United States will have to rebuild much more than the country of Iraq. We will have to rebuild America's image around the globe.
Robert Byrd / Former United States Senator
War
Country
Strong
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