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Robert Byrd Biography

Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from West Virginia from 1959 to 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd previously served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959. He was the longest-serving Senator in United States history. In addition, he was, at the time of his death, the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Congress, a record later surpassed by Representative John Dingell of Michigan. Byrd was the last remaining member of the U.S. Senate to have served during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower, and the last remaining member of Congress to have served during the presidency of Harry Truman. Byrd is also the only West Virginian to have served in both chambers of the state legislature and both chambers of Congress.

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I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

Bitter, Bitterness, Extreme, Fate, Father, Fathers

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

Cheney, Failed, Iraq, President, Vices

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money

American, Borrow, Iraq, President, Wallets, Want

That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust

Dust, Fall, Feet, Heard, Rights, Senate

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

Cloak, Having, Illegality, Law, Psychological, Sides

Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.

Campaigns, Embarrass, Mother, Run, Running

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences

Contemplate, Horrible, Thinking, War

This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.

History, Necessary, Peace, Sleepwalking, War

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

Money, Ideas, Reign, American, Supreme

Today I weep for my country. No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper. . . . Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned. We flaunt our superpower status with arrogance. . . . After war has ended the United States will have to rebuild much more than the country of Iraq. We will have to rebuild America's image around the globe.

Country, Friends, Iraq, Strong, War

It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America. '

America, Constitution, Liberty, People, States, United

Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?

Aggravation, Appreciate, Approval, Approval Rating, Congress, Wonder

To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be the last resort, not a first choice. I truly must question the judgment of any president who can say that a massive, unprovoked military attack on a nation which is over fifty percent children is 'in the highest moral traditions of our country. '

Children, Country, Fifty, Peace, Pick, Question

Congress is not an ATM.

Aggravation, Atm, Congress

Saddam Hussein is a threat, but the threat is not so great that we must be stampeded to provide such authority to this president just weeks before an election.

Authority, Election, Hussein, President, Provide, Threat

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.

Family, Wall, Things In Life, People, Walls

To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.

Speaks Out, People, Liberty, Right, Partisanship, Protect

The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.

Billions, Iraq, Mistake, Ongoing, War

I shall never fight in the armed forces 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 to the blackest specimen from the wilds.

Patriotic, Fighting, Old Glory, Become, Wilds, See

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.

Germany, Italy, Law, Majority, Men, Nation

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