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Christopher John Dodd (born May 27, 1944) is an American lobbyist, lawyer, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States Senator from Connecticut for a thirty-year period from 1981 to 2011.

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

Asset, Assets, Children, Greatest, Precious, Treasure

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

Bureaucracies, Bureaucracy, Changes, Entrenched, Fundamental, Fundamentals

Our strength and our security depends obviously on having a strong military, having a strong economy, and also on our ability to have willing allies and nations join us in common global efforts, the principal one today being terrorism.

Allies, Effort, Military, Strong, Terrorism, Today

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

Children, Full, Full Potential, Greatest, Helping, Start

I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation.

Civil, Ku Klux Klan, Right, Thinking, War

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

Drops, Heating, Needs, Oil, Temperature

I have supported nominees for cabinet-level positions in the Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II administrations with people who I have tremendous disagreements with on substantive matters, and I've always supported them.

Bush, Disagreements, Levels, Matter, Matters, People

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

Defense, Firsts, Goal, Goals, Responders, Work

I am an advocate. . . of public financing for years. That is the one way to get money out of politics. I believe that would be what we ought to be doing.

Believe, Financing, Public, Would Be, Years

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

Country, Lived, Pride, Take, Talking

Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights.

Effective, Medicine, Needs, Patient, Rights, Work

Military solution in Iraq has been disproven and discredited.

Disproven, Has Beens, Iraq, Military

Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.

Ensure, Expense, Iraq, Military, Safety

There is no question that Iraq possesses biological and chemical weapons and that he [Saddam Hussein] seeks to acquire additional weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons. That is not in debate. I also agree with President Bush that Saddam Hussein is a threat to peace and must be disarmed, to quote President Bush directly.

Debate, Destruction, Iraq, Mass Destruction, Possesses, President

Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.

Decision, Deserve, Practice, Rights, Wrong

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

Environment, Republican, Republicans, Three, Together

Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.

Abuse, Begins, Cover, Sake, Spring

We need willingness to consider different mission in Iraq.

Different, Iraq, Mission, Needs, Willingness

If you have got high-ranking officials reaching down five levels in the bureaucracy to drag an analyst up to their office to berate them and threaten their jobs because they don't like the conclusions about an intelligence matter, that, in my view, is dangerous.

Berate, Down, Five, Jobs, Office, Views

The world changed on September 11, 2001.

2001, Changed, September, September 11, World

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