Robert C. Byrd

I cannot believe that in the private and public sectors of this, the greatest industrial and agricultural nation in the world, we cannot provide employment for men who gave years of their lives in fighting the most unpopular war in their…

We need full and open discussions among all interested parties. We need a thorough review of our policy toward Cuba.

I hope I do not live to see the day when this Nation, forged in the crucible of courage, will ever forsake the pursuit of national honor. For the honor of a nation is the sum of the honor of its sons and daughters. If honor ever ceases to…

I regret that our country has gone through this tragic war, which was entered at a time when most free world countries, the press, and our own leaders were saying that we could not afford to let Vietnam go down the drain.

Lyndon Johnson did not die in the rice paddies or the jungles of South Vietnam. But he just as surely gave his life to the cause of freedom. He, like the soldiers, the sailors and the airmen, is one of the fallen.

We cannot, and should not attempt to use strong-arm methods in our commercial and diplomatic intercourse as a means to interfere in the internal affairs of another nation. We would be untrue to our national heritage, however, were we to…

If the responsibility is not squarely placed where it truly belongs, and soon, and pressures brought to bear to end terrorism by cutting off its main means of operation-money-the lust for revenge will insure a sickening bloodbath all over…

Any Negro child has a constitutional right to attend the public school of his choice, and State authorities ought to be bound to guarantee and, if need be, enforce that right.

We are foolish if we have ever believed that we could buy friends, and this was proved in the recent U.N. vote on the two-China question.

I am convinced that the kind of foreign aid programs we have been financing so promiscuously all over the world in recent years have long since outlived their usefulness and, in many instances, have been counterproductive.

We are, by Old World standards, neophytes in the intricacies and machinations of international relations. We cannot number among our statesmen a Machiavelli, a Bismarck, or a Clemenceau.

If it is possible to forge a mutually acceptable link between the ideologies of totalitarianism and Western democracy that will allow future generations to live in harmony, we should be eternally thankful that an American President was one…

Can anyone seriously contend that, to uphold and enforce the constitutional right of Negro students to equal protection, they must be uprooted and forced to travel against their own wishes-by foot or by bus-away from their own neighborhood…

Would not voluntary integration-based on freedom to choose the closest neighborhood school-be the wiser, more commonsense approach?

The desegregation decision of 1954 was right and proper, in my Judgment. I believe that decision is supported by a majority of the American people. I believe further that a majority of white Americans want black Americans to have the…

Let this week of concern mark a renewal of dedicated effort by all the people of this land in behalf of our men captured or missing in Southeast Asia. Above all, let us unite in prayer for a just and enduring peace founded on unshakable…

I join the able minority leader in saying that the American public must be allowed continued access to the Capitol of the United States, the seat of their Government. It is the symbol of our American form of constitutional government, and…

The impending environmental health problems are monumental, and if we are to leave a suitable environment for our children, we must be well aware of the dangers of environmental toxicology, respiratory diseases, and aerosol pollutants…

There is general agreement that the only real defense against a Soviet nuclear missile attack is our own nuclear deterrent. To assure that continued deterrent, we must have an ABM system, for, otherwise, our so-called deterrence loses…

The Americans held in North Vietnam cannot be allowed to become the forgotten men of the war in Southeast Asia.

I believe that the Senate has performed a service to the country by this extended debate, because it clearly indicates that Congress intends to share the war powers under the Constitution while at the same time we recognize the powers of…

The era of lawlessness and the era of subversion of the best interests of education and the Nation must be brought to an end. I believe in the essentiality of education. Let it be an education in the normal sense, and not an education…

We have been giving our country away. The time has come for us to think first of our own industries and our own workers.

Instead of overemphasis on space research, let us increase our funding of oceanography, cancer, and medical research, coal research, and ways to combat pollution.

Mr. President, we must not allow any veteran to become a second-class citizen.