Capacity Quote by Al Gore

One reason the Founding Fathers thought that states should have two senators was so that smaller states wouldn't get run over and could bring…

— Kent Conrad

“It is interesting to note that under our original Constitution the highest office for which citizens could vote was their member of the House…

— Neal Boortz

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

— Elihu Root

Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.

— Tom Daschle

It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.

— Tom Daschle

The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of…

— Alexander Hamilton

“The U.S. Senate presented the most powerful obstacle to any progressive reform. Because senators at the time were elected by state legislatures rather than…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

There is an important role for a United States senator as a check and balance on the president of the United States.

— Cal Cunningham

The reason I love being a senator is that I can have whatever thoughts I have, say whatever I want about any subject at…

— Jay Rockefeller

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

— Fred Thompson

Our founders thought long and hard about what the office of president should be. George Washington resisted the role, and then defined it.

— Martha MacCallum

The Senate, compared to the House, is where things are supposed to slow down, by design, Founding Father design. The Founding Fathers were hell-bent…

— Rush Limbaugh