This country is never going to move forward unless we end Republican rule in the House and Senate. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Ted Kennedy and… — Angus King Copy Share Image
Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
If there are few conservatives in the senate wing of the Republican Party that will say no to a budget that never… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Your first six months in the Senate, you spend a lot of time wondering how the hell you got here. After that,… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides… — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
When it comes to the Supreme Court, the American people have only two times when they have any input into how our… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
The excuse of divided government is over: they have the House and the Senate as well; they have the state legislatures; they… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
I don't think the political class has the slightest idea even yet what is in store for them. And I'll tell you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United… — Thomas Schelling Copy Share Image
Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go… — Howie Carr Copy Share Image
The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused.… — Tom Udall Copy Share Image
Between [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump's team, I don't see a lot of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to… — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Ted Kennedy was in the Senate for 40 years. Tip O'Neill for 35 years. John Kerry in the Senate for 30 some… — Michael Capuano Copy Share Image
This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
My take is this. The Republicans control the Senate. They have the majority of the House, and they have the White House.… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
Volumes in the series on Lyndon Johnson, including Master of the Senate and The Path Power, describe how Johnson created resources out… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the… — John Barrasso Copy Share Image
In the Iowa senate, I helped pass the largest tax cut in state history - returning over four billion dollars in savings… — Joni Ernst Copy Share Image
It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President… — John Jay Hooker Copy Share Image
[Marco]Rubio comes out. He represents for a short period of time the people of Florida. He has got the worst attendance record… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We'll be getting new health insurance and we'll presumably do it through my job with the Senate, and so we'll be on… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
More than a few Republicans in the United States Senate seem to have contracted a severe case of what Harry Truman called… — Tom Fitton Copy Share Image