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"To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences."
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"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."
"The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever."
"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."
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"And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote."
"Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world."
"I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst."
"I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution."
"Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?"
"It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers."
"Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed."
"It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics."
"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."
"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."
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