Joe Lieberman Quotes


This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.


Citations

Lieberman, Joseph. In Praise of Public Life. Simon & Schuster, 2000, p. 14.

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Our Founding Fathers were divided into three general views about slavery. There were abolitionists for whom slavery was abominable and should be eliminated—these were mostly in the Northern States but with a few Southerners. Then there was the opposite view held by most Southerners, that slavery was not only a natural and moral institution but it was an economic and social necessity. Last were those like Laurens, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Slave owners who grew up with slavery as a norm but came to see its evils and the complexity of change and reform in that area.


Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman
  • Born: February 24, 1942
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Politician

Joseph Isadore Lieberman is an American politician, lobbyist and attorney who served as a United States Senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. A former member of the Democratic Party, he was its nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2000 election. During his final term in office he was officially listed as an independent Democrat and caucused with and chaired committees for the Democratic Party.