Robert Byrd: “The American people never been told that we're going into that country to build a new nation, to build a new government…”

I respectfully exercise my Fifth Amendment right and decline to answer.

Bob, I will never know the rules as well as you do. I will make a deal with you. I will not surprise you if you will not surprise me.

Never, in my view, had America been led by such a dangerous head of state.

Makes the majority leader and the majority party the subject of the minority, subject to the control and the will of the minority.