Robert Byrd Quotes

Congress is not an ATM.

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

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.'

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.

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.

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

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

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

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.

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

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

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

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.

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

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

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.

Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.

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.