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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Our nation will have the capacity to build this critical component of our national security structure for the 21st century. It was a great risk in my view to have a diminished number of these vessels if we didn't have this base.
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Looking at large parts of it, you don?t know how they?re going to rebuild it.
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is a normal procedure in any court in this country, civil or criminal in this country. So this is not a deal, not some truncated proposal that is being made here. It's pretty standard procedures in any trial proceedings and I would urge my colleagues not go give up on this idea.
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I think you're going to have an awfully difficult time with Mr. Bolton building the kind of support the United States needs today at the United Nations,
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I don't think we've been muscular enough, if you will, at the diplomatic table. I don't disagree that we ought to leave the military option on the table.
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What you ought to do is prepare for a good storm, a hurricane, a storm where you'd like two or three days of ... water and canned goods and the like, ... Face The Nation.
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Harold, of course, is a person who doesn't express himself as clearly as you might like. He's sort of vague from time to time about how he feels about things. There's a shyness to him in private meetings when it comes to telling you exactly what he thinks of you, your idea and your plans.
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He would do himself, and I think the country, a favor by withdrawing.
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He is a person of outstanding ability and strong character who possesses in my view a deep commitment to the law and the principle of equal justice for all,
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We stand completely and totally behind our president. We may have our differences from time to time, but on a day like this, which rivals or not exceeds the attack on Pearl Harbor, we stand united behind our president and our government.
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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.
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We've tried to discount what I call the 'Y2K survivalist mentality' -- somehow that this is going to be Armageddon,
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tie up three branches of government for the next four months.
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It's time to renew our commitment to the world around us.