Senate Quotes · Page 7

A Senate vote on gay marriage is a destructive pretension against the plan of God

— Pope Francis

The Senate is where the issues are, and most people there are career politicians.

— Mike Braun

I think the thing that's impressed me the most has been the fantastic professionalism of the officials in the Senate.

— Luther Strange

I may be leaving the Senate, but the next chapter in my public service is just beginning.

— Orrin Hatch

The Senate should refuse to confirm nominees who do not take Congressional power seriously.

— Adam Cohen

The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.

— John Ensign

A lot of tight Senate races out there. Let's hit those chips with another dash of salsa, Ed Bradley.

— Dan Rather

If we had known we were going to win control of the Senate, we'd have run better candidates.

— Bob Dole

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

The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and…

— Elihu Root

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

Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Bros., the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line…

— Ellen Goodman

All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an…

— Anonymous

The Senate came one vote short of granting approval to build the Keystone pipeline. Democrats say the pipeline could accelerate global warming.…

— Jimmy Fallon

At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting…

— Sibel Edmonds

If you want to run for the United States Senate, you hire a consultant who will do polling for you, who will…

— Bernie Sanders

After months of lies, the president [Bill Clinton] has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has…

— Dick Armey

Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman,…

— Jon Stewart

Now that Mr. Trump is the President-elect: If he chooses, he can, by executive order, repeal most of what President Barack Obama…

— Louis Farrakhan

It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities…

— Anonymous

Hillary Clinton's opponent in the U.S. Senate race, the Republican she's going to be running against, has been married three times, had…

— Jay Leno

I introduced legislation in the Senate that I believe is more narrowly focused at the actual threat, which is radical Islamic terrorism,…

— Ted Cruz

I have known Trent Lott for 20 years, ... I don't believe he's racist. But he must proactively send a message to…

— John McCain

Senator Chris Dodd unveiled his plan to reduce corruption in the Senate. He's retiring.

— Jay Leno

I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.

— Dan Quayle

Neither Warnock nor Ossoff would be in the Senate without Black voters.

— Harry Enten

Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.

— Mark Udall

Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.

— Jon Tester

In 1947, the year Clinton was born, there were no women serving in the Senate.

— Rebecca Traister

I do not intend to allow the Senate to rubber-stamp the president's plan to reward the Chinese Communists.

— Jesse Helms

Before I was in the Senate, I was a superintendent of the Denver Public Schools, and before that, I was in business.

— Michael Bennet

I'm so beautifully represented, so honored the Senate approved Rex Tillerson . He's going to be fantastic.

— Donald Trump

Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.

— Calvin Jillson

After all, the U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.

— Marco Rubio

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

— Will Rogers

“[The Senate] ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.”

— James Madison

When you run for the U.S. Senate, it's a full game on. This is not for the faint of heart.

— Robert Blaha

Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.

— Nancy Pelosi

In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

— Lincoln Chafee