Chafee Quotes

#1. Hillary has her work cut out for her. Her Democratic challengers are a 'Who's Who' of 'who's that?' Jim Webb, Lincoln Chafee, Silas Phelps, Peter Wilks ... now those last two were characters from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. You didn't even notice, did you?

Cecily Strong

#2. A clothing company is making T-shirts inspired by Bernie Sanders with messages like 'Feel the Bern.' They were gonna make them for Lincoln Chafee too, but no one wants to wear a shirt that says 'Feel the Chafee.'

Jimmy Fallon

#3. In a new poll of Democratic voters, presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee came in with zero percent support. Or in other words: We're all tied with presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee.

Jimmy Fallon

#4. As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

John McCain

#5. I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?

Lincoln Chafee

#6. In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.

Lincoln Chafee

#7. Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the struggle may be clearly defined

Zechariah Chafee

#8. Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

Lincoln Chafee

#9. I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.

Lincoln Chafee

#10. As a former Republican, I represent a group of Americans who all too often have no one to speak for them. This group doesn't necessarily have a name. We've been called 'moderates,' but that term can be misleading.

Lincoln Chafee

#11. Any political historian can give innumerable examples of one percenters who have gone on to success, maybe even Bill Clinton himself?

Lincoln Chafee

#12. I do not think there should be a limit on the rig's liability, because they are sitting on top of unlimited amounts of oil, and thus, there could be an explosion occur that could do untold damage ... The amount of damage that an offshore oil rig can do is infinite.

John Chafee

#13. Anger's not a good emotion.

Lincoln Chafee

#14. Students of America, working families of America: President Obama will not turn his back on you.

Lincoln Chafee

#15. The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.

Lincoln Chafee

#16. Trust is built with consistency.

Lincoln Chafee

#17. Certainly the Republican Party changed and I never changed, as I became an independent my values never changed whether it's on fiscal responsibility, environment or using government tools to help the less fortunate.

Lincoln Chafee

#18. I do believe that 2016 is going to be a great year for Democrats ... because we are right on the key issues.

Lincoln Chafee

#19. Speech should be fruitful as well as free.

Zechariah Chafee

#20. I shortly will introduce legislation banning the sale, manufacture or possession of handguns (with exceptions for law enforcement and licensed target clubs) ... It is time to act. We cannot go on like this. Ban them!

John Chafee

#21. After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.

Zechariah Chafee

#22. Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.

Lincoln Chafee

#23. Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

John Chafee

#24. In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

Lincoln Chafee

#25. American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

Lincoln Chafee

#26. I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

Lincoln Chafee

#27. You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.

John Chafee

#28. Here is a bold embrace of internationalism. Let's join the rest of the world and go metric.

Lincoln Chafee

#29. I remember my Republican Party as fiscally conservative, as caring about the environment.

Lincoln Chafee

#30. Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.

Lincoln Chafee

#31. Each side takes the position of the man who was arrested for swinging his arms and hitting another in the nose, and asked the judge if he did not have a right to swing his arms in a free country. 'Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.

Zechariah Chafee

#32. America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

Lincoln Chafee

#33. A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.

Lincoln Chafee

#34. I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games.

Lincoln Chafee

#35. On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president.

Lincoln Chafee

#36. Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.

Lincoln Chafee

#37. President Obama knows that wars are not to be entered into lightly; he knows that overseas conflicts don't only do damage in the land in which they are fought, but in the land of those who fight them, as well.

Lincoln Chafee