Robert C. Byrd Quotes

"I will never submit to fight beneath that banner 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.""
-Robert C. Byrd

"Those peckerwoods don't know what they're doing. They don't. They're not being realistic."
-Robert C. Byrd

"There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much."
-Robert C. Byrd

"It is time to come home, America. Time to look within our own borders and within our own souls. There are many questions to be answered and many missions to accomplish right here on our own soil."
-Robert C. Byrd

"We're seeing the legislative process go down in this Senate."
-Robert C. Byrd

"The questions continue to grow. The doubts are beginning to drown out the assurances. For every insistence from Washington that the weapons of mass destruction case against Iraq is sound comes a counterpoint from the field -- another dry hole, another dead end."
-Robert C. Byrd

"This incredible American family will undoubtedly once again demonstrate to the nation that they will endure -- and that it is how one lives and not how one dies that ultimately matters."
-Robert C. Byrd

"They call me 'The Pork King,' they don't know how much I enjoy it."
-Robert C. Byrd

"Once the action is taken by Congress to pass this tax cut, that money is going out. There is no guesswork to that."
-Robert C. Byrd

"Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother."
-Robert C. Byrd

"There's more to come. We've got to level with the American people."
-Robert C. Byrd

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

"I want answers - we all want answers - as to why it took so long for rescue teams to get on the ground. There is no excuse for the days of delay and the inexplicable lack of coordination in the response effort, ... We knew the danger was coming. Yet, the government failed to respond. Lives were lost because the government failed to do its job."
-Robert C. Byrd

"She's not a lightning rod. I was concerned that the president might send up someone who just automatically would bring about a filibuster, but he didn't do that."
-Robert C. Byrd

"The season has come for Americans to look homeward ... instead of continuing to spend billions of dollars in Iraq ."
-Robert C. Byrd

"It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics."
-Robert C. Byrd