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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Lincoln Davenport Chafee is an American politician. He was mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island from 1993 to 1999, a United States Senator from 1999 to 2007, and the 74th Governor of Rhode Island from 2011 to 2015. He was a member of the Democratic Party from 2013 to 2019; in June 2019, The Boston Globe reported that he had become a registered Libertarian, having previously been a Republican until 2007 and an independent and then a Democrat in the interim.
Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.
I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.
Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.
A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.
I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.
I remember my Republican Party as fiscally conservative, as caring about the environment.
The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.
Students of America, working families of America: President Obama will not turn his back on you.
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.
President Obama knows that wars are not to be entered into lightly; he knows that overseas conflicts don't only do damage in the land in which they are fought, but in the land of those who fight them, as well.
American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.
In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.
Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.
Trust is built with consistency.
I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?
As a former Republican, I represent a group of Americans who all too often have no one to speak for them. This group doesn't necessarily have a name. We've been called 'moderates,' but that term can be misleading.
In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.
Anger's not a good emotion.
On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president.
I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games.
Any political historian can give innumerable examples of one percenters who have gone on to success, maybe even Bill Clinton himself?
Certainly the Republican Party changed and I never changed, as I became an independent my values never changed whether it's on fiscal responsibility, environment or using government tools to help the less fortunate.
Here is a bold embrace of internationalism. Let's join the rest of the world and go metric.
I do believe that 2016 is going to be a great year for Democrats... because we are right on the key issues.
Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.