Lincoln Chafee Quotes
I do believe that 2016 is going to be a great year for Democrats... because we are right on the key issues.
Chafee, Lincoln. "Lincoln Chafee on 2016 Presidential Run." Interview. CNN Newsroom, Cable News Network, 15 Apr. 2015.
Actually, it was the Tea Party members of the Republican Party whose unprecedented willingness to risk the full faith and credit of the United States when the majority of the Republican legislators and almost all the Democrats were not, who held the required Debt Ceiling Increase hostage to getting their legislative way. But in this particular debate and legislation the Democrats gained nothing except that the anger of the American People was much greater against the Republicans than the Democrats, many of whose usual supporters thought that the Democrats had been totally intimidated by the Tea Party.
Whether or Not the Democratic Speeches Against the manner in which the Union was conducting the Civil War was aiding the South of just fair political criticism has been debated since the war itself. This is one piece of evidence.
Lincoln Davenport Chafee is an American politician. He was mayor of Warwick 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.
