Senate Quotes · Page 10

In the Senate, I will push to overturn Citizens United as I've been vocal about since I first served on the Town…

— Sara Gideon

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

— David Remnick

My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.

— Arlen Specter

In pre-Trump Washington where the old rules applied, Rudy Giuliani could never survive the Senate confirmation process.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I think Im pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

— Powers Boothe

I am considering running for Senate, as well as other opportunities.

— Heather Wilson

In the Senate, I will defend the protections in the Affordable Care Act, and expand health care to more Americans.

— Cal Cunningham

In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

— Ted Cruz

Republicans also took control of the Senate after gaining another seven seats. I haven't seen the GOP get this many seats since…

— Jimmy Fallon

In the 13 months I've been in the Senate, it has become apparent to me the single thing that Republican politicians hate…

— Ted Cruz

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two…

— Robert Caro

What I find most appalling is the Senate calls it a qualified blind trust when it's not blind. Since the Senate says…

— Kathleen Clark

[John] Adams was arguing that a separate social order existed that needed to be embodied in senates and his fellow Americans could…

— Gordon S. Wood

In 1975 a Senate committee headed by Frank Church found that the [Central Intelligence] Agency had planned a number of assassination operations,…

— Jim Garrison

From an institution standpoint, I want the American people to understand that the Senate can function, even on the most serious things.

— Richard Burr

Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they…

— Al Franken

What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The…

— Oliver Goldsmith

I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all…

— Will Rogers

The national media will talk about (national problems) because it's something that everyone in all 50 states can understand, but the reality…

— Larry Sabato

I'm going to do everything I can to get myself elected, but that's not enough. I'm going to try to help move…

— Hillary Clinton

There is a new bill in the Senate that is upsetting a lot of people. This bill would give the President the…

— Craig Ferguson

If you want to run for the United States Senate, you hire a consultant who will do polling for you, who will…

— Bernie Sanders

After months of lies, the president [Bill Clinton] has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has…

— Dick Armey

C. Everett 'Chic' Koop became U.S. Surgeon General under President Reagan. He was a world renowned pediatric surgeon who had a tumultuous…

— Richard Carmona

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

— Robert Caro

This country is never going to move forward unless we end Republican rule in the House and Senate.

— Bernie Sanders

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.

— Tony Snow

What better symbol of unity, what better symbol of growth, than to have Mike Espy in the United States Senate.

— Mike Espy

I certainly want to be the whip, and that's an election every two years in the Senate Democratic caucus.

— Dick Durbin

If [Donald] Trump drags down a bunch of Senate Republicans, the post-election GOP assessment will be much more pessimistic.

— Mara Liasson

Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.

— Aaron Swartz

I'll keep fighting every day to put pressure on Senate leaders to do what's right for Kansas.

— Sharice Davids

I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.

— Ted Stevens

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.

— Bob Corker

Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.

— Kevin Drum

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

— Pierre Salinger

Hillary Clinton's time in the Senate indicates she is happier being a policy workhorse than a show horse.

— Joy Reid

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks.

— Everett Dirksen

I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.

— Robert Torricelli

The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House…

— Tammy Duckworth