Christopher Dodd Quotes
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I don't have a right to pick the president's cabinet on substance.
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Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.
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Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.
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I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.
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I am an advocate... of public financing for years. That is the one way to get money out of politics. I believe that would be what we ought to be doing.
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When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites.
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America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.
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Military solution in Iraq has been disproven and discredited.
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As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.
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It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
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When the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened.
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Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights.
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Over my 24 years in the Senate, Jim, I've never voted against anyone because of their substantive views.
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Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.
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Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again
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As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up.
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American workers are first rate.
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Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.
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Our strength and our security depends obviously on having a strong military, having a strong economy, and also on our ability to have willing allies and nations join us in common global efforts, the principal one today being terrorism.
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There was plenty of evidence that Saddam had nuclear weapons, by the way. That is not in dispute. There is plenty of evidence of that.
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Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years.
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I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation.
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Some of the lowest-paid workers in this nation are people that we ask to watch the next generation of Americans. We do a better job insisting that your pets are cared for in this country than your children are, and there ought to be a sense of outrage about that.
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Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.
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The world changed on September 11, 2001.
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I have supported nominees for cabinet-level positions in the Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II administrations with people who I have tremendous disagreements with on substantive matters, and I've always supported them.
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We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.
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For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.
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Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.
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When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.
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