Senate Quotes · Page 9

The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony.

— Gracie Allen

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

— Steve Kornacki

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

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

— Patrick Leahy

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

— Gordon Smith

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

I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past…

— Olympia Snowe

When I got to the Senate, I started working with Republicans. I think I practically worked with every single one of them,…

— Hillary Clinton

Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates. In 2010 and '12, we spent over $30 million for…

— Karl Rove

Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House…

— Dana Rohrabacher

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that…

— Chris Murphy

I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Ted Kennedy and…

— Angus King

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

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

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

— Charles Schumer

The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by…

— Alexander Hamilton

If you come to work in the Senate, and the morning paper shows that your colleagues in the House have not been…

— Philip Hart

The Senate wants you to know how terribly, sincerely sorry they are even though not a single member of today's Senate was…

— Mona Charen

After a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina, the federal government has a profound obligation to help those in need, .. Right now,…

— Dianne Feinstein

The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now.…

— Will Rogers

Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local…

— Grover Norquist

Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bears to the entire population of…

— Earl Warren

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 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

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

— Dick Durbin

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

— Mike Espy

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

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

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

— Ted Cruz

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

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

— Robert Caro

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