Senate Quotes · Page 11

The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony.

— Gracie Allen

The closest I've come to being on a reality TV show is C-SPAN's live coverage of the Senate floor.

— John Thune

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

— Alexander Pope

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

— Joseph Addison

Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

— Alexander Pope

I'm no one's pet, and I intend to be an independent voice in the U.S. Senate.

— Chris Coons

Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate.

— Mike Mansfield

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

— Joy Reid

If there are few conservatives in the senate wing of the Republican Party that will say no to a budget that never…

— Rand Paul

We'll look to the fall and if there is a new president and a new Senate that's part of a Congress willing…

— Scott Walker

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid says he will not seek re-election. Harry said he wants to spend more time with his family.…

— David Letterman

What happens to conservatives when they get near the White House? How come they only seem to be talking the good talk…

— Chris Matthews

I regret that we weren't able to reform Social Security. The fact that we weren't able to when we had majorities in…

— George W. Bush

They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the…

— Harry Reid

The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the…

— Ken Mehlman

I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It…

— Byron Dorgan

Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by…

— Johnny Isakson

There is a lot of fiscal conservatives in the United States senate that didn't vote for that because we understand that national…

— Marco Rubio

The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the…

— George W. Bush

In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to…

— Zell Miller

'Elections have consequences,' President Obama said, setting his new policy agenda just three days after taking office in 2009. Three elections later,…

— Bobby Jindal

You know, my name … comes from the word shomer, guardian, watcher. My ancestors were guardians of the ghetto wall in Chortkov.…

— Charles Schumer

If you come to work in the Senate, and the morning paper shows that your colleagues in the House have not been…

— Philip Hart

According to data provided by the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, and the national interest between 9/11 and the end of 2014, at…

— Donald Trump

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

— Everett Dirksen

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

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

Republicans have used the filibuster to turn the Senate into a de facto 60-vote body.

— Steve Kornacki

I'm not running for the U.S. Senate because I think Lincoln Chafee is a bad man.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.

— Carolyn Kizer

When I first came to the Senate, people in both parties went out of their way to have personal relationships.

— Patrick Leahy

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

— Gordon Smith

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

— Ted Cruz

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

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

— Robert Caro

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

— Dick Durbin

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

— Mike Espy