Robert Byrd

BABARIC! ↗

— Robert Byrd

#barbaric #dog-fighting #old-people #robert-byrd #u-s-senate

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. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#cruel #ends #germany #how #italy

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#american #american politics #ideas #politics #principles

It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.' ↗

— Robert Byrd

#american #attack #been #constitution #i

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#bush #cheney #failed #iraq #laid

This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#necessary #through #truly #war

Congress is not an ATM. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#congress

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#cloak #enormous #having #his #hitler

Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess? ↗

— Robert Byrd

#approval #congress #every #every time #go

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#export #forth #freedom #greatest #ideals