Joe Lieberman Quotes

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• In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.

  Joe Lieberman

  Military, Blessed, Leader

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• I miss the days when faith was discussed in public and not the most intimate details of our personal lives.

  Joe Lieberman

  Scary, Missing, Details

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• I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

  Joe Lieberman

  Lying, Believe, Borders

  "Congress bids farewell to influential lawmakers", www.foxnews.com.

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• While so much of our economic life is thriving, too much of our moral life is still stagnating. As a people, we need to reaffirm our faith.

  Joe Lieberman

  People, Scary, Needs

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• The stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence.

  Joe Lieberman

  Gun, Law, Stronger

  "Connecticut school shooting reignites gun control debate". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 16, 2012.

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• I am genuinely an Independent. I agree more often than not with Democrats on domestic policy. I agree more often than not with Republicans on foreign and defense policy. I'm an Independent.

  Joe Lieberman

  Independent, Defense, Republican

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We know that the Constitution wisely separates church from state, but remember: the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

  Joe Lieberman

  Scary, Church, Guarantees

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• Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But my friends, eloquence is no substitute for a record - not in these tough times for America. In the Senate he has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party.

  Joe Lieberman

  Country, Powerful, Party

  "The Lieberman Conundrum". voices.washingtonpost.com. November 13, 2008.

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• [People of faith must] reassure them [atheists] that we share with them the core values of America, that our faith is not inconsistent with their freedom and our mission is not one of intolerance, but one of love.... I stand before you today as a witness to the goodness of God. For me, like you and like my running mate Al Gore, faith provided a foundation, order and purpose in my life.

  Joe Lieberman

  Running, Atheist, Order

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• I have a reputation for giving unpopular answers at Democratic debates. I never used marijuana. Sorry!

  Joe Lieberman

  Sorry, Marijuana, Giving

  "The Nation; Explaining Why They Didn't Inhale" by Steven A. Holmes, www.nytimes.com. November 9, 2003.

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• Hollywood has glorified adult premarital sex, and that is unhelpful if your goal is to reduce teen pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births.

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  Sex, Pregnancy, Goal

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• John Adams, second president of the United States, wrote that our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. George Washington warned us never to indulge the supposition 'that morality can be maintained without religion.'

  Joe Lieberman

  Religious, People, Scary

  "Lieberman Seeks Greater Role for Religion in Public Life" by Richard Perez-Pena, www.nytimes.com. August 28, 2000.

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• Most people want their representatives to get something done.

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  People, Done, Want

  "For Joe Lieberman, Solutions To Political Ills Don't Involve Labels". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. October 12, 2015.

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• [Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

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  Scary, Crumbling, Way

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• In fact, five years ago, after Saddam ejected the UN inspectors, John McCain and I gave up on containment and introduced the Iraqi Liberation Act, which, when it became law, made a change of regime in Baghdad official US policy. You might therefore say that, when it comes to Iraq, President Bush is just enforcing the McCain-Lieberman policy.

  Joe Lieberman

  Years, Law, Iraq

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• Dear Mr. President: ... We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraq sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.

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  Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction, Air

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• We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face.

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  Jobs, Frustration, Faces

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• When Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait in 1990, I felt America's post-Cold War commitment to national principles and international leadership was on the line. I was dismayed by the wide opposition among my fellow Democrats. To me, their position was wrong.

  Joe Lieberman

  War, Commitment, Kuwait

  "In Praise Of Public Life". Book by Joseph I. Lieberman, 2000.

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• I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games with each other and forgetting about their constituents.

  Joe Lieberman

  Thinking, Playing Games, People

  "For Joe Lieberman, Solutions To Political Ills Don't Involve Labels". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. October 12, 2015.

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• This is the most religious country in the world and sometimes we try to stifle that fact or hide it. But the profound and ultimately most important reality is that we are not only citizens of this blessed country, we are citizens of the same awesome God.

  Joe Lieberman

  Country, Blessed, Reality

  "Lieberman Says ADL Misunderstood". Joe Leberman's address to the religious leaders at an interfaith breakfast in Chicago, www.washingtonpost.com. August 30, 2000.

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• The essential facts are known. We know of the weapons in Saddam's possession: chemical, biological, and nuclear in time. We know of his unequaled willingness to use them. We know his history. His invasions of his neighbors. His dreams of achieving hegemonic control over the Arab world. His record of anti-American rage. His willingness to terrorize, to slaughter, to suppress his own people and others. We need not stretch to imagine nightmare scenarios in which Saddam makes common cause with the terrorists who want to kill us Americans and destroy our way of life.

  Joe Lieberman

  Dream, Iraq, People

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• The American military will never lose the war in Iraqif lost, it will be lost by a lack of political will.

  Joe Lieberman

  Military, War, Political Will

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• The threat of nuclear terrorism is growing faster than our ability to prevent an attack on our homeland.

  Joe Lieberman

  Nuclear Terrorism, Growing, Faster

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• I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

  Joe Lieberman

  Leadership, Consensus Building, Democracy

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• I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us -more evil or as evil as Nazism and probably more dangerous than the Soviet communists we fought during the long Cold War.

  Joe Lieberman

  War, Long, People

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