Senate Quotes · Page 7

The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.

— Will Rogers

I’m particularly proud of anything the House and the Senate agree on,

— Arnold Palmer

Maine farmers are critical to our state, and they deserve an advocate in the Senate.

— Sara Gideon

I've said that we need to elect Democrats from the school board to the Senate.

— Tom Perez

I was appointed to the Senate, and it has been my job to serve in the Senate and then to earn the…

— Tina Smith

Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

— Alexander Pope

It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate.

— Anonymous

We need more Democrats in the Senate -Like Custer needed more arrows.

— Ronald Reagan

The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature…

— Max Baucus

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

— Patrick Leahy

Nobody in the Senate on a bipartisan fashion trusts the Iranians. They lie. They cheat. They're a murderous regime. They've been trying…

— Lindsey Graham

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

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

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

— Tina Brown

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

The Senate decided they will be smoke-free. They ordained that all public areas in the Senate are now smoke-free. However, the senators…

— Bill Maher

I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all…

— Will Rogers

When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The…

— Chuck Hagel

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

When you look at February's (2011) deficit spending alone, and the fact that it was larger than what our total deficit spending…

— Kristi Noem

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. Given the choice between being reviled…

— Ted Cruz

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

— Alexander Hamilton

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

I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.

— Don Nickles

I want to do my part in fighting for America's future. That's why I have decided to run for the United States…

— Sarah Steelman

In the Senate, I will push to overturn Citizens United as I've been vocal about since I first served on the Town…

— Sara Gideon

My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.

— Arlen Specter

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

— David Remnick

Over my 24 years in the Senate, Jim, I've never voted against anyone because of their substantive views.

— Christopher Dodd

In the Senate, I will defend the protections in the Affordable Care Act, and expand health care to more Americans.

— Cal Cunningham

I think Im pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

— Powers Boothe

I am considering running for Senate, as well as other opportunities.

— Heather Wilson

What better symbol of unity, what better symbol of growth, than to have Mike Espy in the United States Senate.

— Mike Espy

I certainly want to be the whip, and that's an election every two years in the Senate Democratic caucus.

— Dick Durbin

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

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

— Bob Corker

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

— Ted Cruz