Senate Quotes · Page 5

I think, of course, all senate races are national races.

— Elizabeth Emken

The Vice-President is supreme boss of the Senate.

— Sarah Palin

Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.

— Anonymous

It's not often that a United States Senate seat comes open.

— Todd Young

I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.

— Carol Moseley Braun

There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

— Spencer Abraham

Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents.

— Alberto Gonzales

Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony.

— John McCain

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

— Jim Webb

As Donald Trump's fortunes continue to slide, he's increasingly dragging the fortunes of senate republican's weapon.

— Chris Hayes

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

— Laura Bush

I've assembled a team with a broad variety of experiences to lead my Senate office.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President…

— John Jay Hooker

My preference would be to remain in the Senate, ... But you can't say I would refuse to serve in one of…

— John McCain

Volumes in the series on Lyndon Johnson, including Master of the Senate and The Path Power, describe how Johnson created resources out…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the…

— John Barrasso

In the Iowa senate, I helped pass the largest tax cut in state history - returning over four billion dollars in savings…

— Joni Ernst

That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority…

— Robert Byrd

John Kerry keeping a low profile this week. He said he wanted to get away and go someplace where no one would…

— Jay Leno

My take is this. The Republicans control the Senate. They have the majority of the House, and they have the White House.…

— Maxine Waters

The two-thirds rule of the Senate, which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time…

— Thomas A. Bailey

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

— Philip Hart

According to data provided by the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, and the national interest between 9/11 and the end of 2014, at…

— Donald Trump

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

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Charles Schumer

'Elections have consequences,' President Obama said, setting his new policy agenda just three days after taking office in 2009. Three elections later,…

— Bobby Jindal

In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to…

— Zell Miller

C. Everett 'Chic' Koop became U.S. Surgeon General under President Reagan. He was a world renowned pediatric surgeon who had a tumultuous…

— Richard Carmona

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

— Saxby Chambliss

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

— Patty Murray

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

— Norman Lamm

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.

— Pat Roberts

I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.

— Hillary Clinton

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.

— Mark Pryor

“there are just 435 members of the House of Representatives and 100 in the Senate for almost three hundred million people.”

— David Craig

I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.

— Jack Reed

It would be wonderful to be a member of the United States Senate.

— Danny K. Davis

I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments.

— Colleen Hanabusa

I hope President-elect Trump will work with me and with the rest of the Senate to try to keep more jobs here…

— Joe Donnelly

The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate.

— David C. Hardesty Jr