Half Century Quotes

Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.