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After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the pro... ROBERT MUGABE I really don't hold grudges. I mean, I remember everything, but I move on. ROBERT KRAFT To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences. ROBERT BYRD And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The ... ROBERT BYRD This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history. ROBERT BYRD It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack.... ROBERT BYRD The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue th... ROBERT BYRD It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of th... ROBERT BYRD Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess? ROBERT BYRD Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the wo... ROBERT BYRD I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times o... ROBERT BYRD Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of havi... ROBERT BYRD I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the... ROBERT BYRD That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority ... ROBERT BYRD One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'... ROBERT BYRD Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, ... ROBERT BYRD We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I b... ROBERT CARO If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down. ROBERT ALTMAN Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or gov... ROBERT KURSON I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That d... ROBERT FULGHUM I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of an... ROBERT SCOBLE Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies. ROBERT TROUT Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of ... ROBERT COLLIER I'm the guy who spends 15 minutes staring out of the window wondering what to have for lunch. ROBERT WEBB Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space. ROBERT FROST Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ROBERT FROST I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the soun... ROBERT FROST