Frank Lautenberg Quotes (79 Quotes)

There's little devils in the details. I don't expect Congress to rubber stamp it.

Max Cleland lost three limbs in Vietnam and they shamed him so that he was pushed out of office because he was portrayed as weak on defense, ... Where do they come off with that kind of stuff

It's bad enough the administration bribed a journalist to promote their policies, but now it looks like taxpayer dollars were handed over for work that was never done,

The Saudi Arabian government has shown too much patience for these terrorist cells and the ideologies of hate they preach. The United States will no longer tolerate Saudi neglect of the extremists and terrorists who live and thrive in the kingdom,

Our country, ... is the only major industrialized country without a standard of .08.

Consequently, there is plenty of media coverage on official complaints that services have not been delivered fast enough, that rescue efforts have been too slow, and that there have been competing agendas. We are watching this devastation unfold on our televisions for days and you have to ask where is the federal government ... We should have had a significant amount of troops and supplies there on the ground Monday.

I believe the vice president is an honorable man, ... I just think he made a mistake.

President Bush's wake-up call came awfully late. We are watching this devastation unfold on our televisions for days, and you have to ask Where is the federal government The National Guard's first priority must always be to protect people at home.

I admire him because when he started he came from very modest beginnings and has worked his way up. He has been a councilman, a mayor, an assemblyman, a congressman, and he went to the third highest position in the Democratic house.

Nobody has a right to come between any person and their doctor, ... Today they might not fill prescriptions for birth control pills. Tomorrow it could be painkillers for a cancer patient. Next year it could be medicine that prolongs the life of a person with AIDS or some other terminal disease.

There will be plenty of time for fundraising, ... But for now, putting lives back together and rebuilding communities must take priority over building political war chests.

There may be bottled water that's cleaner than tap water and some that's dirtier, but now there's no way for consumers to tell the difference,

The Bush Administration took taxpayer funds that should have gone towards helping kids learn and diverted it to a political propaganda campaign,

We know who the chicken hawks are. They talk tough on national defense and military issues and cast aspersions on others. When it was their turn to serve where were they AWOL -- that's where they were,

The coverage gap is like a cruel trick that the administration is playing on our nation's seniors, ... Why in the world would we create a supposed drug benefit that suddenly disappears in the middle of the year.

If Amtrak had the same opportunity to receive federal infrastructure investments as highway and aviation interests, with a federal match comparable to funds available to those modes of transportation, many more communities would avail themselves of passenger rail service.

This is a Christmas package designed for delivery to the oil industry, and we have got to fight as hard as we can to stop that delivery.

When I hear people as respectable as Mitch McConnell, as Henry Hyde, even though we differ on our opinions, saying, 'Well, enough is enough let's get on with the business of the people,' it tells me that everybody has had a chance to do a little insight, a little review of that and said, 'Ok, that was an experience and we do not want to replicate, duplicate that in any way for the future,' ... Late Edition.

On this auspicious moment in history, I am so pleased with the opportunity to serve with Bob Menendez. We have worked on a lot of issues together over the years from transportation to homeland security, and we will continue to work well together.

We are tired of this as hell and we're not going to take it anymore,

Our system is fundamentally safe, but you can't explain to someone who is the victim of a tragedy that statistically a thing is operating well.

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

I'm concerned about the notion that my opponent wants to take an action in court that would eliminate the choices the people of New Jersey have, ... He's really saying to them, 'Listen, I don't even want you to have an opponent. Just give it to me.'

Although President Clinton's shameful behavior has caused great pain to his family and the nation, the House managers have not proven that he has committed high crimes,

Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.

I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people.

We are sick and tired of delay, and we're not going to take it any more. We're damn sick of it.

Not appropriate is wearing white shoes after Labor Day (the last U.S. summer holiday). These comments were reprehensible and racist,

The other side cannot beat us with the strength of their ideas. They are resorting to the same tactics they used against Senator Daschle--personal attacks on family members and attacks on character. This is shameless behavior.