Senate Quotes · Page 10

And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.

— William J. Clinton

If I live my life thinking that something might not pass the Senate, I would never even get up and bother to…

— Jeb Hensarling

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

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

— Gracie Allen

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

It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski.…

— Ellen Malcolm

For most governors, we find the United States Senate or the United States Congress very frustrating at the slow pace in which…

— Dave Heineman

Strom Thurmond, the former segregationist candidate for president was the Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1986 and he tried…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past…

— Olympia Snowe

When I got to the Senate, I started working with Republicans. I think I practically worked with every single one of them,…

— Hillary Clinton

Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates. In 2010 and '12, we spent over $30 million for…

— Karl Rove

Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House…

— Dana Rohrabacher

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that…

— Chris Murphy

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

— Philip Hart

The Senate wants you to know how terribly, sincerely sorry they are even though not a single member of today's Senate was…

— Mona Charen

After a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina, the federal government has a profound obligation to help those in need, .. Right now,…

— Dianne Feinstein

The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now.…

— Will Rogers

Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local…

— Grover Norquist

Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bears to the entire population of…

— Earl Warren

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

— Johnny Isakson

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

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

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

— Everett Dirksen

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

— Joy Reid

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

— Pierre Salinger

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

— Kevin Drum

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

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

— Robert Torricelli

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

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

— Bob Corker

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

— Ted Stevens

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

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

— Mara Liasson

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

— Ted Cruz