Quotes of Robert Byrd - somelinesforyou

“ As I see it, Iraq is only one facet - albeit the bloodiest one - of a constellation of dangerous challenges facing the United States today. ”

- Robert Byrd

“ Congress is not an ATM. ”

- Robert Byrd

“ We're seeing the legislative process go down in this Senate. ”

- Robert Byrd

“ I won't mince words - I am profoundly worried that the President may have a hidden agenda for dealing with Iran and Syria, and I am equally worried that the Administration has no agenda to manage what appears to be a worsening nuclear crisis in North Korea. ”

- 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

“ As I see it, Iraq is only one facet - albeit the bloodiest one - of a constellation of dangerous challenges facing the United States today. ”

- Robert Byrd

“ As I see it, Iraq is only one facet - albeit the bloodiest one - of a constellation of dangerous challenges facing the United States today. ”

- 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

“ 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 Congress and certainly this Senate is not ordinary, and certainly not Lilliputian. We're senators. ”

- Robert Byrd

“ Congress is not an ATM. ”

- Robert Byrd

“ We're seeing the legislative process go down in this Senate. ”

- Robert Byrd

“ I won't mince words - I am profoundly worried that the President may have a hidden agenda for dealing with Iran and Syria, and I am equally worried that the Administration has no agenda to manage what appears to be a worsening nuclear crisis in North Korea. ”

- 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

“ Congress is not an ATM. ”

- 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

“ Some events define and shape history with the force of plate tectonics, moving the world onto a new path. On September 17, 1787, just such an event occurred when the Constitution of the United States was signed. ”

- 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

“ 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 won't mince words - I am profoundly worried that the President may have a hidden agenda for dealing with Iran and Syria, and I am equally worried that the Administration has no agenda to manage what appears to be a worsening nuclear crisis in North Korea. ”

- Robert Byrd

“ As I see it, Iraq is only one facet - albeit the bloodiest one - of a constellation of dangerous challenges facing the United States today. ”

- Robert Byrd

“ I won't mince words - I am profoundly worried that the President may have a hidden agenda for dealing with Iran and Syria, and I am equally worried that the Administration has no agenda to manage what appears to be a worsening nuclear crisis in North Korea. ”

- Robert Byrd

“ As I see it, Iraq is only one facet - albeit the bloodiest one - of a constellation of dangerous challenges facing the United States today. ”

- 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

“ Some events define and shape history with the force of plate tectonics, moving the world onto a new path. On September 17, 1787, just such an event occurred when the Constitution of the United States was signed. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ I won't mince words - I am profoundly worried that the President may have a hidden agenda for dealing with Iran and Syria, and I am equally worried that the Administration has no agenda to manage what appears to be a worsening nuclear crisis in North Korea. ”

- Robert Byrd

“ As I see it, Iraq is only one facet - albeit the bloodiest one - of a constellation of dangerous challenges facing the United States today. ”

- Robert Byrd
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