Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman
Joseph Isadore "Joe" Liebermanis an American politician and former United States Senator from Connecticut. A former member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's nominee for Vice President in the 2000 election. Currently an independent, he remains closely associated with the party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 February 1942
CountryUnited States of America
expected plenty spend tie time
He joked that we'd probably have plenty of opportunities because with a 50-50 tie in the Senate, he expected to spend a lot of time in the chair,
higher interest interests national partisan remember
Remember that we're all Americans, ... We have a higher interest than our partisan interests -- the national interests.
determine fit meets national nominee position responsibility rice serve standard whether
Our responsibility is to determine whether the nominee is fit for the position ... and whether the nominee, in our judgment, will serve in the national interest, ... Dr. Condoleezza Rice meets that standard at least and much more.
continue interest
It's not in their interest to continue this standoff. They have nothing to gain,
chief committed coordinate creating government information officer personally
I am personally committed to creating a chief information officer in government to coordinate our efforts,
scary way crumbling
[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.
religious people scary
John Adams, second president of the United States, wrote that our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.... George Washington warned us never to indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
harry-truman bills clinton
I'm a Harry Truman, JFK, Scoop Jackson and Bill Clinton Democrat.
party cutting politics
The anti-tax-cut, soft-on-defense, big-spending Democrats will take the Democratic Party to the edge and maybe over.
support action affirmative-action
I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action.
nuclear development weapons
Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States.
challenges global-warming conqueror
Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.
nuclear-terrorism growing faster
The threat of nuclear terrorism is growing faster than our ability to prevent an attack on our homeland.
grandchildren years saws
Shame on us if 100 years from now our 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?'