Top 35 Christopher Dodd Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Our nation’s children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.”

— Christopher Dodd

2. “We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.”

— Christopher Dodd

3. “All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.”

— Christopher Dodd

4. “Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.”

— Christopher Dodd

5. “We owe it to each other – and to our children and grandchildren – to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.”

— Christopher Dodd

6. “When the public’s right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.”

— Christopher Dodd

7. “When the public’s right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened.”

— Christopher Dodd

8. “Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years.”

— Christopher Dodd

9. “I don’t care what the public wants, I’m going to give it what it needs!”

— Christopher Dodd

10. “As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up.”

— Christopher Dodd

11. “It’s easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn’t magically appear on a supermarket shelf.”

— Christopher Dodd

12. “Don’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

13. “America’s highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.”

— Christopher Dodd

14. “By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.”

— Christopher Dodd

15. “Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them – regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.”

— Christopher Dodd

16. “Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.”

— Christopher Dodd

17. “As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.”

— Christopher Dodd

18. “Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.”

— Christopher Dodd

19. “Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights.”

— Christopher Dodd

20. “I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.”

— Christopher Dodd

21. “Military solution in Iraq has been disproven and discredited.”

— Christopher Dodd

22. “Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again.”

— Christopher Dodd

23. “It cannot bring back and make whole those who suffered and died by a racist’s criminal hand. But it can at least reaffirm our nation’s commitment to seek the truth and make equal justice a reality.”

— Christopher Dodd

24. “Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.”

— Christopher Dodd

25. “Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.”

— Christopher Dodd

26. “For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.”

— Christopher Dodd

27. “There was plenty of evidence that Saddam had nuclear weapons, by the way. That is not in dispute. There is plenty of evidence of that.”

— Christopher Dodd

28. “Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.”

— Christopher Dodd

29. “The world changed on September 11, 2001.”

— Christopher Dodd

30. “Some of the lowest-paid workers in this nation are people that we ask to watch the next generation of Americans. We do a better job insisting that your pets are cared for in this country than your children are, and there ought to be a sense of outrage about that.”

— Christopher Dodd

31. “I will only vote to confirm a nominee for attorney general who is truly independent and who will guarantee reforms that restore and uphold the Constitution.”

— Christopher Dodd

32. “Connecticut’s first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.”

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33. “American workers are first rate.”

— Christopher Dodd

34. “Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.”

— Christopher Dodd

35. “We need willingness to consider different mission in Iraq.”

— Christopher Dodd

36. “I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.”

— Christopher Dodd