Christopher Dodd Quotes (79 Quotes)


    Twenty-three months ago, our nation was thrown into turmoil because we learned a painful reality -- that our democracy did not work as well as it should. ... The legislation we present to the Congress today rectifies those wrongs, does justice to the American voter.

    Is there a White House Syrian group, for instance, that's meeting Are we planning some action in Syria that we ought to be aware of in this committee- Are we considering military action against Syria,

    Asking her to stay on, at least until January, gives the president a bit more time to think this process through, rather than trying to jam decisions.

    The vice president was the leader of the effort here to get us into this war in Iraq,



    He would do himself, and I think the country, a favor by withdrawing.

    It's because of our failure to deal with this issue, the underlying cause of it, and the idea that if we scream loud enough at these other countries we're somehow going to get far better cooperation out of these nations,

    I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.

    Rosa Parks is not just a national hero, she is the embodiment of our social and human conscience and the spark that lit the flame of liberty and equality for African Americans and minority groups in this country and around the globe.

    As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up.

    Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.

    The message that we send in the next 48 to 72 hours out of this Congress on this issue -- I think it would have a huge effect on the outcome of this conflict.

    Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

    Direct mail service is not likely to happen without cooperation from the Cuban government, nor the scholarship programs for Cuban students. Humanitarian assistance by non-governmental organizations is already ongoing.

    We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

    Some of the lowest-paid workers in this nation are people that we ask to watch the next generation of Americans. We do a better job insisting that your pets are cared for in this country than your children are, and there ought to be a sense of outrage about that.

    All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

    I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

    Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

    There's been a list of witnesses who have come forward -- seven different people who corroborated that Mr. Bolton tried to fire a defense analyst. Not just one -- seven different people, all within this administration.

    The specific package of proposals announced by the administration is much ado about nothing, quite candidly.


    Throwing worn-out wallpaper on a cracked foundation just doesn't work. The Bush administration proposal amounts to nothing more than that. Don't solve the problem, just end up with more rhetoric. We need a fundamental change in the way we look at Cuba.

    they're going to pay an awful price politically and it hurts the country terribly in my view.

    America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

    By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.

    The conclusion was that this was a very deteriorating situation, ... Janet Reno has bent over backward to give us all the information. I don't know how much more an investigation could turn up.

    That's not what you want to send up, a person that doesn't have the confidence of the Congress, and so many people who have urged that he not be sent up to do that job.


    I'm hopeful this measure will help bring to justice people who perpetrated heinous crimes because of racial hatred,

    Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.

    tie up three branches of government for the next four months.

    demonstrated that an honest and respectable discussion of differences between the United States and Cuba is possible.

    I would hope the president would think a little longer about this from his perspective,

    You make the comparison, do you want two or three years out of Sandra Day O'Connor, or 25 years out of this ... Based on what we know, the choice looks pretty good - keep Sandra Day O'Connor.

    I think you're going to have an awfully difficult time with Mr. Bolton building the kind of support the United States needs today at the United Nations,

    Harold, of course, is a person who doesn't express himself as clearly as you might like. He's sort of vague from time to time about how he feels about things. There's a shyness to him in private meetings when it comes to telling you exactly what he thinks of you, your idea and your plans.

    What you ought to do is prepare for a good storm, a hurricane, a storm where you'd like two or three days of ... water and canned goods and the like, ... Face The Nation.

    The real hope was that we could get some cease-fire agreement here,

    I'm so proud of our students here in Connecticut and obviously President Clinton was impressed too since he's agreed to thank the students in person for their tremendous efforts to help the people affected by these tragic disasters,

    This will be the first U. N. ambassador since 1948 that we've ever sent there under a recess appointment,

    Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years.

    If you go that route ... we may be talking May or June before we finish this trial, ... Meet The Press.

    If the Republican leadership here decides that this (hearings) is the top priority, and not a patients' bill of rights, not gun violence, not juvenile justice, then I think they do so at their political peril, ... But I don't want to see the Congress spend its time on it.

    Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

    not yet arrived at a product that we can present to this body that is a bipartisan proposal.

    I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!

    For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

    As far as I can tell, members of that community Latino are no different than people throughout our country.

    This ought not to be a partisan issue. Democrats and Republicans ought to be able to find common ground on seeing to it that we have accessible, affordable and quality child for every needy child in this country,


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