Conrad Burns Quotes

United States, Politician
January 25, 1935 – April, 28, 2016.

Conrad Ray Burns (January 25, 1935 – April 28, 2016) was a United States Senator from Montana and later a lobbyist. He was only the second Republican to represent Montana in the Senate since the passage in 1913 of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and was the longest-serving Republican senator in Montana history.

Burns stated that 'We've got to remember that the people who first hit us in 9/11 entered this country through Canada.'

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In 2000, he offended a Billings woman when he pointed to her nose ring and asked her what tribe she was from.

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On February 17, 1999, while at a meeting of the Montana Implement Dealers Association in Billings, Montana, Burns referred to Arabs as 'ragheads'.

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In 1994, Burns told the editorial board of the Bozeman Chronicle that when asked by a constituent, 'How can you live back there in Washington, DC with all those niggers?' he replied, 'It's a hell of a challenge.' When he was asked about the use of the racial slur, he said: 'I don't know. I never gave it much thought.'

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