Joe Lieberman Quotes
- I have consistently opposed a flag-burning amendment, and voted against its passage. Flag desecration is hateful and worthy of condemnation, and I would support any statory means possible to curtail desecration of the flag. But I believe that the importance of the Bill of Rights — our nations founding document — requires us to establish a very high threshold for agreeing to change it. does the amendment address some extreme threat to our country, or redress some outrageous wrong? In this case, abhorrent though flag desecration may be, it simply does not meet that test. - View Quote Details on I have consistently opposed a flag-burning amendment, and voted against…
- I urge the Bush Administration to rethink its priorities. We can’t talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities. - View Quote Details on I urge the Bush Administration to rethink its priorities. We…
- I was in Washington in the summer of 1963, [and] had the opportunity to participate in Dr. Martin Luther King’s March on Washington, which culminated at the Lincoln memorial in his soaring ‘I Have a Dream ‘ speech. For me, this was America at its best. Hundreds of thousands of us, all religions, races, and nationalities, joined together peacefully but powerfully to petition our government to right the wrong of racial bigotry. - View Quote Details on I was in Washington in the summer of 1963, [and]…
- I have great respect for Dick Cheney. I don’t agree with a lot of things he said in this campaign. He was a very distinguished Secretary of Defense, and I don’t have anything negative to say about him. - View Quote Details on I have great respect for Dick Cheney. I don’t agree…
- The best thing we did with the Patriot Act was to sunset it. Almost 800 foreign nationals, immigrants, mostly Arab-Americans or people who looked like Arab-Americans, were arrested, put in jail, held without charges, no notification for their families and no right to counsel. That’s un-American and I’ll fight to end that. If we fight the terrorists who attacked us because of our liberties by compromising our liberties, shame on us. - View Quote Details on The best thing we did with the Patriot Act was…
- Shame on us if 100 or 200 years from now our grandchildren and great-grandchildren are living on a planet that has been irreparably damaged by global warming, and they ask, ‘How could those who came before us, who saw this coming, have let this happen?’ - View Quote Details on Shame on us if 100 or 200 years from now…
- I cannot help but say, however, that those who were responsible for killing 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001, never apologized. Those who have killed hundreds of Americans in uniform in Iraq working to liberate Iraq and protect our security have never apologized. And those who murdered and burned and humiliated four Americans in Fallujah a while ago never received an apology from anybody…. But Americans are different. That’s why we’re outraged by this. That’s why the apologies were due. - View Quote Details on I cannot help but say, however, that those who were…
- It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be commander-in-chief for three more critical years, and that in matters of war we undermine Presidential credibility at our nation’s peril. - View Quote Details on It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to…
About Joe Lieberman
Joseph Isadore “Joe” Lieberman (born February 24, 1942 ) is an American politician from Connecticut. Lieberman was first elected to the United States Senate in 1988, and was elected to his fourth term on November 7, 2006. In the 2000 U.S. presidential election Lieberman was the Democratic candidate for Vice President, running alongside presidential nominee Al Gore, becoming the first Jewish candidate on a major American political party presidential ticket. Gore and Lieberman won the popular vote in the election, but lost in the Electoral College.
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