Senate Quotes · Page 8

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

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

— Ted Stevens

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

— Ted Cruz

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

— Robert Caro

This country is never going to move forward unless we end Republican rule in the House and Senate.

— Bernie Sanders

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.

— Tony Snow

Republicans have used the filibuster to turn the Senate into a de facto 60-vote body.

— Steve Kornacki

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

The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the…

— James Madison

When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my…

— Gore Vidal

Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator…

— Henry Adams

One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and…

— Olympia Snowe

The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service…

— Phil Donahue

Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they…

— Al Franken

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

Now my mom designs to resign so she runs for US senate, and now at 67 my mom just launched a new…

— Stephanie McMahon

I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the…

— Mazie Hirono

Here is a needle President Obama needs to thread if he chooses a ninth. The nominee would need to be so strongly…

— Steve Inskeep

Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes…

— Frank H. T. Rhodes

This is the Immorality Act of 1927.To prohibit illicit carnal intercourse between Europeans and natives and other acts in relation thereto. Be…

— Trevor Noah

You know a Senate race is obviously a much smaller deal than a presidential race. What I think makes a very hard…

— Michael Bennet

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

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

— Gordon Smith

When I first came to the Senate, people in both parties went out of their way to have personal relationships.

— Patrick Leahy

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 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

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

Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate.

— Mike Mansfield

I'm no one's pet, and I intend to be an independent voice in the U.S. Senate.

— Chris Coons

Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

— Alexander Pope

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

— Joseph Addison

No one knows the Senate better than Joe Biden; he lived there for 35 years.

— William M. Daley

The politicians said Dr. Tom Coburn couldn't deliver babies when he got elected to the U.S. Senate.

— Markwayne Mullin