Robert Byrd
Robert Byrd
Robert Carlyle "Bob" Byrdwas a United States Senator from West Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. Senator from 1959 to 2010. He was the longest-serving U.S. Senator and, at the time of his death, the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Congress.Byrd is also the only West Virginian to have served in both houses of the state legislature and both houses of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 November 1917
CountryUnited States of America
I am very pleased with the court's decision, which I believe to be a great victory for the American people and our Constitution,
I congratulate Mr. Lott and Mr. Daschle, ... I would never have thought it could be done.
The Congress and certainly this Senate is not ordinary, and certainly not Lilliputian. We're senators.
I know the moment wasn't too big for us. Lanier made a lot of shots. They made shots against the zone. Then when we went man, they went to a 1-4 (set) and got to the rim. They've got experienced guard play.
This is our basic document. It guarantees our freedoms, ... I think the American people revere it, but they don't know a lot about it. I'm trying to inspire students and teachers . . . to study it, to read it.
The market for horsemeat is not an American market, ... Horsemeat is shipped abroad. The three slaughterhouses in the U.S. are foreign-owned. Thus, American horses are sold to a foreign company, killed for consumption in a foreign market, and foreign-owned companies profit from the export of horsemeat. Many Americans would be shocked to learn that our animals suffer such a fate, all in order to satisfy the tastes of those living in Europe and Asia.
I love this man from Alaska. I do. I love him. I feel that I have my blood in my veins is with his blood. I love him. But I love the Senate more.
This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.
To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be the 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 fifty percent children is 'in the highest moral traditions of our country.'
If the voters really understood what we were up to they'd vote us out of office.
There is ample evidence that the horrific events of Sept. 11 have been carefully manipulated to switch public focus from Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, who masterminded the Sept. 11th attacks, to Saddam Hussein, who did not.
Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences