During the 2008 presidential campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid marveled at the electability of Barack Obama because, unlike previous black candidates,… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
The Senate is indeed a deliberative body, and that quality serves the nation well. A slow-moving government helps us maintain a stable… — John C. Danforth Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier,… — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to… — Bob Kerrey Copy Share Image
It's abominable, and it's a disgrace to a great democracy to see what's happened in our country. The main reason for that… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We can move America forward with a strong middle class. We can move America forward with a strong Democratic majority in the… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which… — Augustus Copy Share Image
It is perhaps accurate ... to describe the Daschle proposals as being 'Sex, Lies and No Videotape,' ... We insisted on a… — Slade Gorton Copy Share Image
The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
The Patriotic Millionaires campaign, pulled together quickly by the Agenda Project in New York City, just happens to appear on the same… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We wouldn't even be where we are had it not been that 70% of Hispanics voted for President Obama, voted Democratic in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Senate is allowed to work the way it was designed to - meaning a place where nothing is decided without a… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
Republican Scott Brown lost his bid for Senate in New Hampshire last night, two years after he was voted out as Senator… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Our State Senate must lead by example, restore trust and transparency, stop sweeping workplace misconduct under the rug, and do everything we… — Kevin de Leon Copy Share Image
The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
I'm not new to the political process; I was making a contribution as the speaker of the third largest and most diverse… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable;… — George Will Copy Share Image
Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's written about the… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Electing clean-energy leaders into the Senate, the House, and the Oval Office - and getting it done in the next few years… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
I am a junior senator, ninety-fifth on the seniority list, and so by Senate standards, my office in the Russell Senate Office… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
I don't like to see facts twisted, untruths fabricated to give the [Supreme Court] nominee a black eye, even before he comes… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
The senate was wealthy people and it wasn't elected, it was chosen through legislatures, which themselves were under private influence, powerful influence.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the… — George Allen Copy Share Image
When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, D.C., I did everything I could to defeat cap… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in… — John R. Dunne Copy Share Image
I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One reason the Founding Fathers thought that states should have two senators was so that smaller states wouldn't get run over and… — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, 'If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution,… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Which of the following two groups contains the most former grand dragons of the Ku Klux Klan - the first 59 Tea… — Howie Carr Copy Share Image
The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
“My point is, the Senate is filled not just with lawyers, but with old white men. Chapter 28 The Angel and the… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
The real con artist is Senator Marco Rubio who was elected in Florida and who has the worst voting record in the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that the Senate was structured and founded the way it is, as opposed to the House, it was… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The [President's] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right to decide… — George Mason Copy Share Image
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