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 have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.
Once the action is taken by Congress to pass this tax cut, that money is going out. There is no guesswork to that.
The Congress and certainly this Senate is not ordinary, and certainly not Lilliputian. We're senators.
Congress should be approving a more robust homeland security bill,
Congress is not an ATM. We have to be able to explain this new, enormous bill to the American people.
Congress is not an ATM.
Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?
The questions continue to grow. The doubts are beginning to drown out the assurances. For every insistence from Washington that the weapons of mass destruction case against Iraq is sound comes a counterpoint from the field -- another dry hole, another dead end.
I have had the faith of a mustard seed, and I've been able to move mountains, ... And there are other mountains, and I'll be able to move them.
I apologize for any wrongdoing I or my players did. I thought I was defending my players, but I'm sure that's what Coach Fred Hickman was trying to do too. I'm sorry about all of that.
She's not a lightning rod. I was concerned that the president might send up someone who just automatically would bring about a filibuster, but he didn't do that.
Show me another 87-year-old man who's got the energy that I've got, and I'll eat your hat,
She knows I love the Senate, ... She wants me to continue to serve the people, and she'll be with me. She'll be with me shoulder to shoulder.
There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much.