Senate Quotes · Page 8

The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.

— Ted Cruz

I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

— Kate Brown

As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.

— William Proxmire

I've been outspent by my opponents every time I've run for U.S. Senate.

— Russ Feingold

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.

— Jeb Bush

We in the Senate refer to Sen. Gillibrand as the hottest member.

— Harry Reid

In Montana, a math teacher is running for the Senate. Win or lose, she plans on demanding a recount because math is…

— Conan O'Brien

The Senate could use more people who had to sweat for a living and fewer of the politicians who made this mess.

— Thom Tillis

I'm a big, big reader of pretty much everything that Chuck Colson has written. And I consulted with him when I was…

— John Thune

Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed…

— Michael Bennet

As the elected representatives of the American people, all the people, nearly 300 million people, that we in the Senate are charged…

— Patrick Leahy

F.D.R. had an economic crisis of unprecedented proportions in 1933 when he drove 15 major bills through the Congress, and super majorities…

— Robert Dallek

Back in his Chicago Senate days, when he was seeking greater black credibility, Obama was happy enough to attend the Reverend Jeremiah…

— Tina Brown

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to…

— John F. Kennedy

When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my…

— Gore Vidal

The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the…

— James Madison

I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the…

— Gerald R. Ford

What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call…

— Olympia Snowe

I want to fall on the floor laughing - imagining Hillary Clinton working well in the Senate with everybody else! Oh, give…

— Camille Paglia

As a matter of fact if you think about [Donald Trump press conference after visit to Mexico], that could have been may…

— Jose Diaz-Balart

The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the…

— Alexander Hamilton

It will be my mission every day in the Senate to be a leader who looks to identify and implement tangible, meaningful…

— Katie Britt

Now my mom designs to resign so she runs for US senate, and now at 67 my mom just launched a new…

— Stephanie McMahon

Truth be known, President Obama has never been particularly driven by principle. Right after his election, I wrote a column in a…

— Jonathan Turley

I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.

— John Thune

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

— Jim DeMint

I'm not going to run for Senate and I'm not going to run for Governor. I'd like to put those rumors to…

— Anonymous

Every once in a while, the Senate seems to remember that it belongs to a coequal branch.

— Charles Krauthammer

Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents.

— Alberto Gonzales

It's not unusual for someone running for Senate in Illinois to come see me.

— Christie Hefner

In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.

— Tammy Duckworth

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

— Ambrose Bierce

If the Senate is the world's greatest deliberative body, the House is poised to be the world's greatest tweeting one.

— Ruth Marcus

We must return conservatives to the majority in the U.S. Senate.

— Jeb Bush

There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

— Spencer Abraham

I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.

— Carol Moseley Braun

We're going to be eternally optimistic that the Senate is going to get their work done.

— Diane Black

I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.

— Jack Layton

In the U.S. Senate, I'll fight discrimination everywhere it exists.

— Cal Cunningham

Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.

— Jeb Bush