Joe Lieberman Quotes (150 Quotes)

There have been differences between Al Gore and me, and I think it's a mark of his strength as a leader that he didn't look for somebody who agreed with him on everything, ... Late Edition.

We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe.

It gives America's native ingenuity and private-sector entrepreneurship the help they need from government that will enable them to build a new century of progress and upward mobility for the American people.

We're going to do this on a nonpartisan basis, just as the 911 commission itself acted on a nonpartisan basis, ... The matter of national security, protecting the American people from terrorist attack, obviously transcends any partisan considerations.

Because of the urgency of this task, we will begin work right away,

I think we're going to get this done before anybody thinks about breaking for the campaign or the election,

Thirty seconds of RNC rhetoric cannot paper over almost three years of shortsighted Bush security policies, both at home and abroad,

The Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation from the primitive, killing tyranny of Saddam to modern, self-governing, self-securing nationhood unless the great American military that has given them and us this unexpected opportunity is prematurely withdrawn.

I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

until the Russian government ends its assault on democracy and political freedom.

Not only do you have to watch your own back in these vice presidential debates, you also have to watch the presidential candidate's too.

I believe that it is the way to bring this trial to an earlier ending on a less partisan note that makes clear that though the president will not be removed from office -- which it's clear that he will not -- that the Senate does not intend to exonerate him or vindicate his behavior,

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

The flood of announcements from the major oil companies of yet another reminder that Connecticut consumers are being overwhelmed by massive increases in the costs of heating their homes and driving their cars. They need precisely the kind of relief that the legislation I introduced in December would provide a payment to each low-income and middle-class household and taxpayer, funded by a one-time windfall profits tax, to help them pay for the staggering increases in energy costs from last winter to this one.

... Sometimes, we try to stifle that fact or hide it, ... But the profound, and ultimately most important, reality is that we are not only citizens of this blessed country, we are citizens of the same awesome God.

We definitely have a majority in the Senate for McCain-Feingold, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

I was beginning to hope someone would attack me.

Dear Lord, maker of all miracles, I thank you for bringing me to this extraordinary moment in my life. And Al Gore, I thank you for making this miracle possible for me and breaking this barrier for the rest of America forever.

Most of the American people want only a little help every now and then as they work so hard to make their lives better, ... and that is exactly what we together should do for them.

Two weeks ago, our Republican friends tried to walk and talk a lot like us -- did you notice

His record here in Texas, it's been a bad one. Texas has the most toxic pollutants in the country. Houston, where I am this morning, now has the dirtiest air in America and it's affecting people's health.

When the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee says that, you know you're going to get it.

I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.

Failure to act, we fear, will make America like a pitiful giant, tied down and subject to the whims of small (oil-producing) countries.

I am thrilled that Congress has received the President's report accepting the recommendation of the BRAC Commission to keep Submarine Base New London open, ... This is an enormous victory not only for Connecticut, but for our national security.

Are we sitting back like couch potatoes and watching the systemic elimination of all the lines that separate the acceptable and the unacceptable in our culture

We have reached an important milestone and achieved a new momentum in reaching a goal all Americans should embrace - building a secure, peaceful, democratic Iraq that is no longer a threat to the United States or the international community.

Remember that we're all Americans, ... We have a higher interest than our partisan interests -- the national interests.

all aimed at having a decision here which will legitimately produce electors from Florida.

We're going to look back at Katrina as a turning point. We need the military, because of its extraordinary capabilities, to be ready to play a much more active role. I don't think it's going to be that difficult from a congressional point of view.

Greeting a crowd of 100 supporters at a campaign stop Sunday, Lieberman announced the poll results to an explosion of applause. Introducing his wife, he jokingly put down Clark. One of the other candidates has Madonna, ... I have Hadassah.

had his way, Saddam Hussein would still be in power today, not in prison.

James Sensenbrenner was trying to stop illegal immigrants from getting driver's licenses. None of these were illegal immigrants.

approach each case with an open mind, committed to applying the Constitution and the rule of law to reach the most just result possible in the particular case.

It is essential that I get a first-hand look at the recovery work under way on the Gulf Coast and hear directly from those involved,

We've got a week to try to bring this bill to a vote, and I think the president clearly wants it, ... I can't believe the speaker, who also wants this bill, is not even going to call it. The speaker has inadvertently made a non-partisan matter into a partisan matter.

We have an opportunity here, and we have a responsibility, to ensure that this election lifts up our democracy and respects every voter and every vote, no matter what the outcome. And that is precisely what Vice President Gore and I will seek to do in the days ahead.

Every day, first responders put their own lives on the line to ensure our safety. The least we can do is make sure they have the tools to protect and serve their communities.

He agreed that it is the unusual case in which a prevailing Supreme Court precedent would be overturned. He basically said I want to be careful about this, not putting words in his mouth that Roe was precedent on which people, a lot of people relied, that it had been precedent for decades and therefore deserves great respect.

The nightmare that we all have is that, God forbid, there's a terrorist attack of some kind on a major American city that requires evacuation without warning,

And they can't say I'm a flip-flopper, which they love to say about Democrats, because I'm not. I take one position before every crowd. It got me some heckles and boos at times in this campaign.

When it comes to terrorists, we ought to do everything we can to capture andor kill them. We also ought to do a lot more than this president is doing to protect our homeland security.

I am personally committed to creating a chief information officer in government to coordinate our efforts,

You know, the president ought to call in his former colleagues from the oil industry, sit them down at the table, and say, 'Look, this is wrong. Draw a line somewhere. We don't want to have to legislate here, but if you don't charge more reasonable prices, we're going to have to put some kind of price control on.' I think that's a first step.

While my faith was the focus of much of the early media reaction to my candidacy it was not even mentioned at the end of the campaign. And that is the way we had all hoped it would be,

Our conversation was warm and cordial, ... We talked about areas in which we can work together -- opportunities for bipartisan agreements that the American people expect of us.

Bush's economic plan could fit on the back of a shampoo bottle 'cut taxes, increase spending, borrow, repeat.' If he keeps repeating that plan, he will surely endanger Social Security benefits and slow our economy to a halt, just when we need the most economic strength we can muster to fight and win the war against terrorism.

Our responsibility is to determine whether the nominee is fit for the position ... and whether the nominee, in our judgment, will serve in the national interest, ... Dr. Condoleezza Rice meets that standard at least and much more.

We ran aground on the question of Jim Sensenbrenner wanting to prevent states from issuing driver's licenses to illegal aliens, ... There was just about unanimous rejection of that. When the president called Jim Sensenbrenner, it was my impression that he was going to ask him to hold that until next year. But Jim Sensenbrenner came back with more proposals.

Two weeks ago, our opponent claimed that America has a hollow military,