Christopher Dodd Quotes

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

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.

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

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years.

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again

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

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

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

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.

I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!

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.

I don't have a right to pick the president's cabinet on substance.

As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.

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

When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites.

Over my 24 years in the Senate, Jim, I've never voted against anyone because of their substantive views.

The world changed on September 11, 2001.

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

There was plenty of evidence that Saddam had nuclear weapons, by the way. That is not in dispute. There is plenty of evidence of that.

The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he [Saddam Hussein] is in power.

American workers are first rate.

We need willingness to consider different mission in Iraq.

Military solution in Iraq has been disproven and discredited.

I will only vote to confirm a nominee for attorney general who is truly independent and who will guarantee reforms that restore and uphold the Constitution.

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.

When the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened.

By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.

It cannot bring back and make whole those who suffered and died by a racist's criminal hand. But it can at least reaffirm our nation's commitment to seek the truth and make equal justice a reality.

Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.

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.