Carl Levin Quotes

• Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

  Carl Levin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sometimes, Result

• Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

  Carl Levin

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Nation, Economic

• We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

  Carl Levin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mandated, Nations

• If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

  Carl Levin

  Topics in Democracy, Mistake

  Tags in Chance

• It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.

  Carl Levin

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Importance

• The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.

  Carl Levin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Terror, Liberation

• The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.

  Carl Levin

  Topics in Failure, Respect

  Tags in Iraq

• The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.

  Carl Levin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Enemies

• We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

  Carl Levin

  Topics in Mistake, Past

  Tags in Hope

• When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

  Carl Levin

  Topics in Decisions, Intelligence

  Tags in War, Way

• The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

  Carl Levin

  Topics in Future

  Tags in People, American

• While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.

  Carl Levin

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Crisis, Social Security

• Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.

  Carl Levin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Capability, Civilians

• Dr. Rice’s record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President’s decision to initiate military action against Iraq.

  Carl Levin

  Topics in Decisions, Intelligence

  Tags in War, Initiated

• Sadly, the President’s budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country’s severe fiscal problems.

  Carl Levin

  Topics in Country

  Tags in President, Wealthiest

• Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.

  Carl Levin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Laws, Child

• I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result.

  Carl Levin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Path, Legislation

• If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we’ve done, to go back to Bush policies – and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.

  Carl Levin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Understand, Alternative

• The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

  Carl Levin

  Topics in Uncategorized

Carl Levin (19)

Birth:	28th June, 1934
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

Carl Levin was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was an American  Senator from Michigan from 1979 to 2015. He was the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, and is a member of the Democratic Party. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School. He attended Swarthmore College, graduating with his Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1956. He then attended Harvard Law School, where he earned his Juris Doctor in 1959.

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