Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd
Christopher John "Chris" Doddis an American lobbyist, lawyer, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States Senator from Connecticut for a thirty-year period from 1981–2011...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 May 1944
CityWillimantic, CT
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I am proud to nominate the first Jewish candidate for vice president, my colleague and my friend Joseph Lieberman, ... Al Gore, you could not have made a better choice for the vice presidential candidate of the United States.
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I think there is a question of fearing that if we know more, there is apt to be more panic. And I understand that calculation, but I think it is a miscalculation,
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I?m very proud of my state, my constituents, my governor, ... I?m proud of the people in the legislature and others who are all taking steps to make a contribution to alleviate the hardships that have fallen on our fellow citizens. It?s a great, great day.
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I couldn't have done it without my line. They gave me a lot of key blocks.
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I understand how you may be forced into a situation earlier than you'd like where you might not have everything you want, but it's now going into the third year,
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My hope is many of the problems we saw recently hopefully can be alleviated or at least lessened. These aren't just glitches. They can have a profound impact on our elections. We need to do everything in our power to ensure that voters not only are able to vote, but have that vote counted.
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I thought Joe did a fabulous job, as the vice president did on Tuesday night, of laying out of the significant differences that exist with regard to Social Security and Medicare.
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I think the winner tonight was the American public. This was a very good debate, civil debate. I know it probably lacked the fireworks that some would have wanted, but I thought it was a very competent explanation of the two points of view,
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I think there's going to be an urge by the majority to demonstrate that they can produce legislation, not just impeachments and trials, ... And the president clearly is going to want to show that there's something more to his legacy than having been impeached and tried.
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All over the globe, people are making an effort in this new millennium to reach out and find a new basis on which to have a relationship. And it's long overdue that we tried the same thing, in my view, in this hemisphere, and specifically with regard to Cuba.
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We can't have you and Mr. Spitzer and the guy in Massachusetts screaming at each other,
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Those of us who have come to know him can only admire his courage and perseverance in the face of adversity that would wither, wither the will of other men.
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Yet 90 miles off my shore, closer than from here to Richmond, Virginia, I can't even get a commission to assess whether or not we should do something differently. That is outrageous.
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You can impeach a federal judge in this country for the failure to demonstrate good behavior during his tenure. I don't think we want to apply that standard to the future of the presidency. So the standard for evicting, convicting, evicting him from the White House is a very high standard indeed.