List of Robert Byrd Quotes

This War Is Not Necessary. We Are Truly Sleepwalking Through History.

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.

Is It Any Wonder, Why The Approval Ratings Of The Congress Go Up Every Time We Go Into Recess?

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.

To Contemplate War Is To Think About The Most Horrible Of Human Experiences.

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.'

Do Not Run A Campaign That Would Embarrass Your Mother.

Mission Accomplished? The Mission In Iraq, As Laid Out By President Bush And Vice President Cheney, Has Failed.

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.

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.

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.'

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.