Senate Quotes · Page 6

The Senate needs a lot more diversity, and I bring quadruple diversity.

— Mazie Hirono

The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

— Hendrik Hertzberg

The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm.

— P. J. O'Rourke

It's great to be in a room full of young people...The average age of the Senate, I think, is death.

— Aaron Schock

“My point is, the Senate is filled not just with lawyers, but with old white men.”

— Al Franken

I think [Whitewater]'s going to prevent the First Lady from running for Senate.

— Ann Coulter

I have been in the Democratic Caucus in the Senate for over 24 years.

— Bernie Sanders

I promise to fight against any attempts to undermine Roe v. Wade in the Senate.

— Sara Gideon

Ted Kennedy was in the Senate for 40 years. Tip O'Neill for 35 years. John Kerry in the Senate for 30 some…

— Michael Capuano

This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored…

— Russ Feingold

We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than…

— Grover Norquist

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to…

— Jeff Flake

Between [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump's team, I don't see a lot of…

— Bill McKibben

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

Obviously in the Senate we have all types of different people, all kinds of different folks that have come from all types…

— Mark Pryor

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon…

— Calvin Coolidge

The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge…

— M. E. W. Sherwood

It will be, I suppose, a foolhardy Government that tries to push through legislation making knowledge of both official languages one of…

— Judy LaMarsh

I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice,…

— Ron Wyden

I'm going to do everything I can to get myself elected, but that's not enough. I'm going to try to help move…

— Hillary Clinton

The national media will talk about (national problems) because it's something that everyone in all 50 states can understand, but the reality…

— Larry Sabato

There is a new bill in the Senate that is upsetting a lot of people. This bill would give the President the…

— Craig Ferguson

I think women bring a different perspective into Senate and that we tend to be more collaborative in our approach.

— Patty Judge

He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.

— Margaret Truman

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

— Robert Torricelli

Prior to that I testified before the Senate subcommittee addressing mountaintop removal.

— Kevin Richardson

My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group.

— Amy Klobuchar

When I came to the Senate, I promised to work with anyone and everyone to deliver for Arizonans.

— Ruben Gallego

I was advised by my assistant that the women of the Senate don't do potlucks. To which I responded, 'Of course we…

— Lisa Murkowski

To my knowledge, there's never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate.

— Peter Agre

Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.

— Scott Howell

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.

— George Packer

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.

— Don Nickles

Republican control of the Senate = expanded neocon wars in Syria and Iraq. Boots on the ground are coming!

— Ron Paul

I think it would be frankly a retrograde thing for Pauline Hanson to be elected to the Senate.

— George Brandis

“Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate. (on the birth of his granddaughter)”

— Herbert Hoover

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

— Joe Biden