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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Looking at large parts of it, you don?t know how they?re going to rebuild it.
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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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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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The real hope was that we could get some cease-fire agreement here,
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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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I would hope the president would think a little longer about this from his perspective,
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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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It's time to renew our commitment to the world around us.
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It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.
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tie up three branches of government for the next four months.
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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,