Joe Lieberman Quotes (150 Quotes)


    I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

    It's not in their interest to continue this standoff. They have nothing to gain,

    I believe the president wants this bill, and I know he's taken some steps to bring it about, ... The reality is that with a majority of the members of the House ready to vote for this bill, the speaker refused to call a roll call.

    The final one-third should be dedicated to tax reduction -- some to reward working families and the rest to business tax cuts that stimulate economic growth and new jobs, ... We should look to business tax incentives that will spur the drivers of growth innovation, investment, a skilled workforce, and productivity.

    We need to be better prepared, ... Late Edition.


    It's time for some details, ... He's gotta describe some of the progress that I saw there. It's gotta be realistic.

    These demonstrations were clearly designed to intimidate and to prevent a simple count of votes from going forward, ... This is a time to honor the rule of law, not surrender to the rule of the mob.

    The content of many cutting-edge games is becoming more and more vivid, violent, and offensive to our most basic values.

    The question we pose to the White House today is 'Do you really want to allow this commission to be created And if you don't, why not'

    It's true from time to time we will be critics, but I promise you this We will never, never put government in the position of telling you through laws what to make, ... We will nudge you, but we will never become censors.

    This is an American tragedy of enormous proportions and it's going to take a long time to bring it back to where it was let alone better.

    Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States.

    I hope that all of us in both parties who have said that we have to stay in Iraq and finish the job in pursuit of our own values and of our own security will pull together and make it happen and not be part of a chorus of doubters that will undermine the support of the American people more,

    The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

    We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong.

    You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.

    If you look beyond the rhetoric and the media attempts to find differences, both of them obviously want to find a way to win the war on terrorism and both of them want to succeed in Iraq.

    The vote for president is essentially ending in a tie, ... That puts a special burden not just on Gov. Bush, but on all of us in Congress to work on a bipartisan basis and in a cooperative spirit.

    This was one of those moments when fighting one of the most powerful senators there is took a lot of guts for a lot of people.

    It is in our nation's interest that the winner in Florida is truly the person who got the most votes.

    something that I have been advocating and praying for for more than 12 years, since the Gulf War of 1991. Saddam Hussein was a homicidal maniac, a brutal dictator, who wanted to dominate the Arab world and was supporting terrorists.

    The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs.

    Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.

    In fact, we think that the ballots -- both the absentee ballots and the ones that are being hand counted in the three counties in South Florida now -- deserve the benefit of the doubt, ... Fox News Sunday.

    Ultimately, the voters will make the determination and I will continue to make my case about taking our party and nation forward,

    In the Bush administration, the foxes are guarding the foxes, and the middle-class hens are getting plucked.

    Leadership on the American side and the European side can bring us closer, ... hate us all equally.


    We can laugh at some of this stuff, but that is downright offensive. That is not the America I love and those are not the type of judges I will nominate, I promise that. ... They talk about compassion, but then they go ahead and try to pack our courts with judges who are trying to take away the rights of Americans, particularly the rights of women.

    Shortchanging vital investments in education and training, medical care and community development means that kids in Connecticut and across the country will suffer at school, families will have to scrape by to own homes and doctors and hospitals may have to think twice before providing care to senior citizens.

    If you ask me whether the best use of 1 trillion of American taxpayer money in the coming years is to land a mission on Mars or the moon, I'd say no,

    This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.

    the lion's share of new games coming on the market contain little if any violence.

    I know his record and I know his heart. I know him as a public servant and I know what it is like to sit with him around the dining room table, ... We have discussed, sometimes even debated policy issues. And we have shared private moments of prayer.

    Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.

    The economists may think it looks like the beginning of a recovery, but until middle-class Americans and those working hard to get into the middle class get their jobs back -- the 3.5 million that they lost under George Bush -- then we don't have an economic recovery,

    Today, the president can ask the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department to investigate the prices that are outrageous and, particularly, the discontinuity between the record profits of the oil companies,

    There's a lot of personal and political controversy around this decision, but it just seems to me that this was a group of professionals, of health experts, who made a decision based on what's best for a women's health. Therefore, I support it.

    I love John Breaux, he's one of my best friends in the Senate. We've worked together in the New Democratic Movement, ... Frankly, I'd hate to see him go. He is just the kind of bridge-builder and great legislator that we need to stay in the Senate to make this work.

    We need it right here on Earth to give health care that's affordable to everybody, to improve our education system, and do better on veterans' benefits and homeland security.

    Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.

    We're going to let the voters speak, ... There's no question John Kerry has gotten a bounce from his victories in Iowa and New Hampshire. But Iowa and New Hampshire -- great states, great people -- are not the country.

    This is what they're complaining about As a people, we need to reaffirm our faith and renew the dedication of our nation and ourselves to God and God's purpose, ... There must be a place for faith in America's public life.

    has shaken the public's confidence in the ability of government at all levels to protect them in a crisis.

    good news, encouraging news, but not enough to say that it's a recovery.

    I have decided tonight to end my quest for the presidency, ... difficult, but realistic decision.

    Parents, ... ...are locked in a losing competition with culture to raise our children.

    about the heart and soul of the Democratic Party.

    If this Administration doesn't show some economic leadership soon, the American Dream will be harder and harder for millions of Americans to realize.

    Al Gore is endorsing someone who has taken positions diametrically opposite of what Al Gore has supported in the past. He'll have to explain why he's supporting someone, I think, who will take this country backward, not forward.


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