Senate Quotes · Page 6

Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.

— Mark Udall

A lot of tight Senate races out there. Let's hit those chips with another dash of salsa, Ed Bradley.

— Dan Rather

If we had known we were going to win control of the Senate, we'd have run better candidates.

— Bob Dole

I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.

— Dan Quayle

Senator Chris Dodd unveiled his plan to reduce corruption in the Senate. He's retiring.

— Jay Leno

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

— Saxby Chambliss

I've assembled a team with a broad variety of experiences to lead my Senate office.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

— Patty Murray

I admired Eugene McCarthy's courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher…

— Kitty Kelley

We didn't make much progress on the country's agenda. And in my view it's because the Senate basically hadn't done much of…

— Mitch McConnell

I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed…

— John Jay Hooker

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity…

— Elena Kagan

Under the Constitution, the president, not the Senate, nominates and appoints judges. The Senate has a different role. We must give our…

— Orrin Hatch

Now that this legislation has passed the House, I look forward to the vote in the Senate that will bring us to…

— Anonymous

What's more important than the media, there's this thing called ObamaCare, which was President Obama's signature domestic achievement. It won Republicans the…

— William Kristol

While I support a more comprehensive bill and hope a more extensive package will eventually past the Senate, I also am a…

— John McCain

I think that if Republicans are given the reins of leadership in the House or Senate or both, we will have to…

— John Thune

When I was secretary of state, I had to be responsible for getting a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia through the…

— Hillary Clinton

Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious…

— J. C. Watts

The people, when they have been unchecked, have been as unjust, tyrannical, brutal, barbarous, and cruel, as any king or senate possessed…

— John Adams

One thing was very clear and I made it always very clear at the beginning when I got into the governorship, and…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I am extremely energized to be in the Senate, because the Senate is the only emergency brake on the Trump train right…

— Tim Kaine

The Senate, compared to the House, is where things are supposed to slow down, by design, Founding Father design. The Founding Fathers…

— Rush Limbaugh

The Constitution says the President shall nominate, not maybe he could, maybe he can't, he shall nominate. Implicit in the Constitution is…

— Joe Biden

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

— Jim Webb

Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony.

— John McCain

As Donald Trump's fortunes continue to slide, he's increasingly dragging the fortunes of senate republican's weapon.

— Chris Hayes

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

— Laura Bush

I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments.

— Colleen Hanabusa

It would be wonderful to be a member of the United States Senate.

— Danny K. Davis

I hope President-elect Trump will work with me and with the rest of the Senate to try to keep more jobs here…

— Joe Donnelly

The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate.

— David C. Hardesty Jr

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

— Norman Lamm

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.

— Pat Roberts

I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.

— Hillary Clinton

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.

— Mark Pryor

“there are just 435 members of the House of Representatives and 100 in the Senate for almost three hundred million people.”

— David Craig

I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.

— Jack Reed

It's great to be in a room full of young people...The average age of the Senate, I think, is death.

— Aaron Schock

“My point is, the Senate is filled not just with lawyers, but with old white men.”

— Al Franken