Christopher Dodd
Christopher Dodd
Christopher John "Chris" Doddis an American lobbyist, lawyer, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States Senator from Connecticut for a thirty-year period from 1981–2011...
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Medicare has been one of the most successful, popular programs since its inception,
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China is a worry, Japan is a worry, Russia is a worry, Italy is a worry. ... But many of these countries now are moving more aggressively and catching up.
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Twenty-three months ago, our nation was thrown into turmoil because we learned a painful reality -- that our democracy did not work as well as it should. ... The legislation we present to the Congress today rectifies those wrongs, does justice to the American voter.
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What did the vice president know, what were his intentions?
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Throwing worn-out wallpaper on a cracked foundation just doesn't work. The Bush administration proposal amounts to nothing more than that. Don't solve the problem, just end up with more rhetoric. We need a fundamental change in the way we look at Cuba.
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This will be the first U.N. ambassador since 1948 that we've ever sent there under a recess appointment,
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We need to do something about antiquated voting machines, ballots that confuse rather than clarify, and overcrowded polling places.
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Consumers all across the country, I don't care where you live, are irate about this, ... If it were not for Katrina and people being terribly upset about the mismanagement of that disaster, this would be the sole subject of discussion!
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That's not what you want to send up, a person that doesn't have the confidence of the Congress, and so many people who have urged that he not be sent up to do that job.
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It's because of our failure to deal with this issue, the underlying cause of it, and the idea that if we scream loud enough at these other countries we're somehow going to get far better cooperation out of these nations,
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The real hope was that we could get some cease-fire agreement here,
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There is a sense here among people of ...both persuasions here that we need to get this over with. There is a danger of this thing spinning out of control again and going on way too long. And that's the sense I got today from my colleagues.
Yes, it is a new world. And I think it is a better world.
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We've got a very busy agenda at the U.N., it's going to be very difficult to get the job done. Let's get behind him, let him do his work I certainly want to see him succeed but I'm going to watch him carefully.