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While there is a lot to disagree with in Mr Weicker's "accomplishments", I also found a lot to agree with.

- "Nothing speaks more for a third party than what's happened here in the intervening seven years, nothing. You can put this right on the doorstep of the Republicans and Democrats. All they did was bounce the money back and forth. The governor (John G. Rowland, Weicker's Republican successor) got his projects, and the Democrats in the legislature got their projects. And all the while, the money gets sucked out, and the public is left holding the bag."

- "That's what politics has become,' he says, returning to his favorite subject.
'The purpose of politics now is strictly to get elected and re-elected, not governing."

- "Their (the parties) arrogance,' he exclaimed. 'It's the same damned arrogance (they display) when even as a ticket holder, Ralph Nader, couldn't enter the debate in Boston during the last presidential campaign. The arrogance is monumental. There's nothing in the Constitution about the two parties. Nothing. They have to take their chances along with everyone else.
You know as well as I do that in economics, when you have a monopoly, you get high prices and a bad product. In politics, you get bad ideas and bad candidates when you have a monopoly. And that's what you've got. And it's the system that suffers, as you see continually with voter participation going down."

Like P. T. Barnum (There's a Sucker Born Every Minute!), Lowell Weicker comes from Connecticut and Fairfield County. Unlike Barnum, Weicker has never given a moment of pleasure or enjoyment to any normal American. He is a liar who makes Slick Willy look honest. He ran for governor in 1990 saying that "enacting an income tax would be like pouring gasoline on a fire." Then, after being elected on the elite snobbery ticket with a descendant of Thomas Hooker, he proceeded to bribe legislators with job offers to give up their careers in elective office to cram his income tax down the public's throats. He doesn't run for office because he would be tarred, feathered and ridden out of even Connecticut on a rail..

You can always tell when Weicker is lying: his lips move.