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I've spent the last year listening to Americans, and the state of the union that George W. Bush lives in is very different from the state that most hardworking Americans are living in.

Joe Lieberman

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Joe Lieberman
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 24
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Former United States Senator
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Stamford
Connecticut
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[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.
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I have a reputation for giving unpopular answers at Democratic debates. I never used marijuana. Sorry!
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John Adams, second president of the United States, wrote that our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. George Washington warned us never to indulge the supposition 'that morality can be maintained without religion.'
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Dear Mr. President: ... We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraq sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.
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I miss the days when faith was discussed in public and not the most intimate details of our personal lives.
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Senator Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who I think can do great things for our country.
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We know that the Constitution wisely separates church from state, but remember: the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
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Let us break through some of the inhibitions that have existed to talk together across the flimsy line of separation of faith: to talk together, to study together, to pray together and ultimately to sing together His Holy name.
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