Senate Quotes · Page 24

The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something…

— Hillary Clinton

[Ted] Cruz is not at all popular in the Senate. Republicans say he may be too disliked to be a nominee. And…

— Dalia Mogahed

I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the…

— Ted Cruz

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

I think [Whitewater]'s going to prevent the First Lady from running for Senate.

— Ann Coulter

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

That Republicans now control the Senate means, of course, that they control the confirmation process. Their majority enables them to stop an…

— Terry Eastland

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

— Bob Corker

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

To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up…

— Christine Todd Whitman

[The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't…

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Ted Cruz

What the framers of the Constitution tried to achieve when they wrote that Constitution back in the 1700s was an independent federal…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

You know, my name .... comes from the word shomer, guardian, watcher. My ancestors were guardians of the ghetto wall in Chortkov.…

— Charles Schumer

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

I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.

— Roy Blunt

The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and…

— Ronald Reagan

Neither Warnock nor Ossoff would be in the Senate without Black voters.

— Harry Enten

When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and says to himself,…

— Geraldine Ferraro

When we look at the situation in Ferguson, Missouri and the tragic death of Michael Brown, we are reminded of the importance…

— Al Sharpton

Some Democrats and their advocates in the press believe Obamacare, a year into implementation, is no longer much of a factor in…

— Byron York

Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.

— Aaron Swartz

According to the old rules, Senator Jeff Sessions could not be confirmed by the United States Senate because in fact he wasn`t.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it…

— John Jay Hooker

Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.

— John Jay Hooker