I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation.
Christopher DoddDon't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.
Christopher Dodd