Jay Rockefeller
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"John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV" is a former United States Senate/United States Senator from West Virginia, serving from 1985 to 2015. He was first elected to the Senate in 1984, while in office as List of Governors of West Virginia/Governor of West Virginia, a position he held from 1977 to 1985. Rockefeller moved to Emmons, West Virginia to serve as a Volunteers in Service to America/VISTA worker in 1964, and was first elected to public office in the state, as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates/House of Delegates, in 1966. Rockefeller was later elected West Virginia Secretary of State of West Virginia/Secretary of State in 1968 and was president of West Virginia Wesleyan College from 1973 to 1975. He became the stateĀ“s senior senator when the long serving Sen. Robert Byrd passed away in June 2010.

As a great-grandson of oil business magnate/tycoon John D. Rockefeller, he was the only serving politician of the prominent six-generation Rockefeller family at the time and the only one to have held office as a Democratic Party (United States)/Democrat in what has been a Rockefeller Republican/traditionally Republican Party (United States)/Republican dynasty. On January 11, 2013, Rockefeller announced that he would not seek reelection in 2014.

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Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country.

We have a moral obligation to tackle television violence and provide parents with the tools to make their children safer.

There should be another chair before us, with an accompanying name card that reads director of national intelligence.

One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to thing in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years.

Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.

A man of character, conviction and kindness ... was a classic American intellectual -- a man with a brilliant and probing mind, yet entirely approachable and pragmatic.

I really expected that when this hearing came, the new director of national intelligence would be here to talk about threats.

I just question whether what you did in Utah sort of says, 'Well, we can do this in all of America,' ... I would suggest to you that in Appalachia and other areas they can't, and I would urgently hope that you would think about this matter now that you have the entire country's population very much at your mercy or at your help.