One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.
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I want answers - we all want answers - as to why it took so long for rescue teams to get on the ground. There is no excuse for the days of delay and the inexplicable lack of coordination in the response effort, ... We knew the danger was coming. Yet, the government failed to respond. Lives were lost because the government failed to do its job.Robert Byrd
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.
Robert Byrd
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
Considering the events unfolding in the Gulf States and the heroic efforts still under way to save lives efforts that include our own West Virginia National Guard this is not the time for political announcements,
Robert Byrd
It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
Robert Byrd
I will never submit to fight beneath that banner with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback
Robert Byrd
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