Senate Quotes · Page 11

I should hate to think that the Senate was as tired of me at the beginning of my service as I am…

— Charles G. Dawes

I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate... it's too…

— Chuck Robb

There's a learning curve to understanding how the Senate operates.

— Luther Strange

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

— Arnold Palmer

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

— Will Rogers

Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.

— Jeb Bush

In the U.S. Senate, I'll fight discrimination everywhere it exists.

— Cal Cunningham

We're going to be eternally optimistic that the Senate is going to get their work done.

— Diane Black

Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against.

— Irvine Welsh

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

The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused.…

— Tom Udall

Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go…

— Howie Carr

My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a…

— Herman Cain

Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United…

— Thomas Schelling

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid marveled at the electability of Barack Obama because, unlike previous black candidates,…

— Monica Crowley

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee,…

— Fred Thompson

When it comes to the Supreme Court, the American people have only two times when they have any input into how our…

— Mike DeWine

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and…

— Carol Moseley Braun

I almost dropped dead the first time I heard Bob Dole say 'gay marriage' on the floor of the senate. He wasn't…

— Cherry Jones

I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver…

— Tammy Baldwin

[Hillary Clinton] showed, while in the Senate, that ability to connect and reach across and to forge alliances. I think she will…

— Mark Shields

When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that…

— Claire McCaskill

In the Senate race I went for some candidate endorsement meetings and three people there asked me: Do you go to a…

— Angela Alioto

I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great,…

— James Madison

I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.

— Jack Layton

I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.

— Alan Keyes

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.

— Robert Caro

“Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' someone asked the chaplain. No, I look at the senators and I pray for…

— Edward Everett Hale

The Tea Party has an important voice in the country and now they have a voice in the U.S. Senate.

— Mike Lee

Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate.

— John Dingell

I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.

— Claire McCaskill

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

— Heather Wilson

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

— Powers Boothe

In pre-Trump Washington where the old rules applied, Rudy Giuliani could never survive the Senate confirmation process.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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

— Cal Cunningham

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

— Christopher Dodd

Tea Party has now cost the Republicans 5 senate seats. My next donation is going to them.

— Bill Maher

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

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