Robert Byrd Quotes - Page 2

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

  Robert Byrd

  Mother, Running, Campaigns

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

  Robert Byrd

  Iraq, President, Vices

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

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

  Robert Byrd

  War, Thinking, Horrible

  "We stand passively mute" by Robert Byrd, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2003.

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• 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.'

  Robert Byrd

  Country, Peace, Children

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

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• 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.

  Robert Byrd

  President, Hussein, Election

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

  Robert Byrd

  Approval Rating, Aggravation, Appreciate

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• 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.

  Robert Byrd

  Ocean, Doors, Land

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

  Robert Byrd

  Peace, War, Sleepwalking

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