Presidential Candidate Quote Archive -
Chris Dodd
"We don’t need a surge of troops in Iraq – we need a surge of diplomacy and politics."
- Bold Engagement in Iraq, 4/11/07
Dodd on Global Development and Health:
Dodd on Diplomacy:
Dodd, Speech at the Des Moines Center for Citizen Diplomacy: April 11, 2007 - Link
We don’t need a surge of troops in Iraq – we need a surge of diplomacy and politics. Every knowledgeable person who has examined the Iraq situation for the past several years—Baker and Hamilton, senior military officials, junior officers—has drawn the same conclusion--there is no military solution in Iraq.
Dodd, Speech at the Des Moines Center for Citizen Diplomacy: April 11, 2007 - Link
If we choose unilateralism in 2008, then the answer is "no" – no, because policies that isolate America have time and again failed to shape our future for the better. Should the American people choose a second path—one of bold engagement in the world—then I believe the 21st Century can be a century of optimism and opportunity.
Dodd on Aid Effectiveness:
Dodd on Other Foreign Policy Topics:
Dodd, Press Release August 24, 2007 - Link
In fact, debating over military tactics when there is no military solution only undermines efforts by those of us who believe that we must change course in Iraq now and begin to immediately redeploy US combat forces so that Iraqi leaders will have the impetus to find a political accord.
Dodd, AFL-CIO Debate Chicago: August 7, 2007 - Link
I agree [NAFTA] requires modification, but we also need to do something else here. In addition to having trading agreements that include labor, environmental health provisions in them and insisting upon those provisions in any trading agreement here, we need to stop exporting the jobs in the country that already are here.