Lautenberg Quotes

#1. Congratulations to Saddam Hussein on being elected to another seven-year term. It was very close. He received 99 percent of the vote, and one percent of the vote went for last-minute candidate Frank Lautenberg.

David Letterman

#2. Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties.

Frank Lautenberg

#3. So the effect of this Republican provision to allow doctors to be gagged from even discussing abortion with their patients is outrageous.

Frank Lautenberg

#4. We depend on the Supreme Court to uphold the integrity of our government.

Frank Lautenberg

#5. God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

Albert Einstein

#6. We have other legislation that all of you are aware that I have been so active on, with my colleagues here, and that is to shut down the gun shows.

Frank Lautenberg

#7. Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.

Charles Vest

#8. When darkness falls and eyes stay shut
A chain of voices opens up.
Let wax not wane give breath to death.
p.s. Shhh -Yvonne Woon(Dead Beautiful)

Yvonne Woon

#9. Judge Samuel Alito was born and raised in the great state of New Jersey. Our state has a legacy of producing outstanding jurists, most notably the late William J. Brennan, who ushered in our nation's recommitment to civil rights in the latter half of the 20th century.

Frank Lautenberg

#10. For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism.

Christian Morgenstern

#11. People at .08 are too impaired to drive. Studies show that at .08, the ability to perform critical driving functions is decreased by as much as 60 percent.

Frank Lautenberg

#12. Having members of the Bush administration actually sit down and discuss counter terrorism with the very countries that support terrorists is absurd.

Frank Lautenberg

#13. People like to pigeonhole you.

Jason Statham

#14. Morality is for everyone and that is what

Alexander McCall Smith

#15. Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

Frank Lautenberg

#16. Your first druggy relationship is a rite of passage. A learning experience with a curve. After that one, the next one, if there is a next one, will be a decision. You will know just what you are getting into.

Fiona Helmsley

#17. As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing non-piano music at the piano.

Michael Hersch

#18. One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

Frank Lautenberg

#19. Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.

Frank Lautenberg

#20. Flip-flopping is kind of an easy thing to identify. During a recent convention, we heard an irate Senator make an angry speech declaring that it is not what you say but, rather, what you do that counts. You flip-flop when you make promises and fail to fulfill them.

Frank Lautenberg

#21. The President should spend his time going after the terrorists rather than sharing sensitive counter terrorism information with countries that sponsor terrorism.

Frank Lautenberg

#22. I say I don't need a tax cut. It will not do me any more good. I can't buy more, I can't eat more, I can't do more, and I want it distributed among the ordinary people who work every day.

Frank Lautenberg

#23. I believe that justices must recognize that our Constitution is an 18th-century document that needs to be applied in the context of the 21st century.

Frank Lautenberg

#24. I like unkempt; I don't mind if I have holes in my jacket or whatever. I think people should look more the way they feel.

Chris Robinson

#25. Judge Samuel Alito's accomplishments in life are the embodiment of the American dream.

Frank Lautenberg

#26. I had hoped to hear the President tonight tell the Congress and the American people exactly how he plans to tackle some of the important issues facing this country, unfortunately I did not.

Frank Lautenberg

#27. I'm convinced that our duty to provide advice and consent for justices of the Supreme Court is our most important constitutional responsibility.

Frank Lautenberg

#28. Dufresne, his name was - I remember, because it sounds a little like mine. It seems he was not so smart at wife-killing as he was at picking growth stocks.

Stephen King

#29. The integrity of the subtle body is totally important. As the subtle body wears, we get sick. That is why, eventually, the body dies - it's because something happens to the subtle body.

Frederick Lenz

#30. Third time pays for all

J.R.R. Tolkien

#31. I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people.

Frank Lautenberg

#32. The ocean is tired. It's throwing back at us what we're throwing in there.

Frank Lautenberg

#33. The natural world had gone badly wrong. Everything that mankind is doing on the planet had upset the delicate balance of nature. The pollution, the rampant industrialization, the loss of habitat-when animals were squeezed and cornered, they behave viciously, in a desperate effort to survive.

Michael Crichton

#34. Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?

Frank Lautenberg