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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.

  • To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

    War   Thinking   Horrible  
    "We stand passively mute" by Robert Byrd, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2003.
  • It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Sen. Robert C. Byrd (2008). “Letter to a New President: Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader”, p.84, Macmillan
  • Congress is not an ATM.

    "Senators ask tough questions", www.cnn.com. September 10, 2003.
  • 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.

  • 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.'

  • 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.

    Mom   Country   Hate  
    "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2001.
  • 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.

    America   Scary   Soul  
  • Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

    Iraq   President   Vices  
    "One year later, Bush defends Iraq speech" by Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2004.
  • 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.

  • Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.

  • This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.

  • 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

    Iraq   President   Want  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Country   Strong   War  
  • America’s true power lies not in its will to dominate but in its ability to inspire.

  • 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.

    Focus   Hussein   Als  
  • 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

    Fall   Rights   Dust  
  • 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.

    "An Unlikely Friendship: President Obama and Senator Byrd" by Eve Zibel, www.foxnews.com. June 28, 2010.
  • I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

  • If the voters really understood what we were up to they'd vote us out of office.

  • 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.

    Ocean   Doors   Land  
  • 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.

    "McGovern Would Oppose Byrd; Rules Out ‘a Racist’ for Court" by Fred P. Graham, www.nytimes.com. October 12, 1971.
  • Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

  • Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?

  • 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.'

    "The Byrd That Roared" by Matteen Mokalla, www.motherjones.com. March 2004.
  • 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.

    Loss   Erosion   People  
    "Life in the Shadows of the Empire" by Eamon Martin, www.counterpunch.org. March 18, 2006.
  • 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.

    War   Mistake   Iraq  
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    Robert Byrd

    • Born: November 20, 1917
    • Died: June 28, 2010
    • Occupation: Former United States Senator