Senate Quotes

497 Senate quotes by 335 unique authors

It is perhaps accurate ... to describe the Daschle proposals as being 'Sex, Lies and No Videotape,' ... We insisted on a complete search for… — Unknown Author
Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of… — Johnny Isakson
I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down… — Birch Bayh
A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first. — Pierre Salinger
Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate. — Patricia Ireland
I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men. — Benjamin F. Wade
To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress,… — Christine Todd Whitman
Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in… — Dick Morris
Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to… — Agnes Macphail
Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position in proportion to… — Tacitus
There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may be a certain… — Josiah Wedgwood
We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate;… — William Howard Taft
Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to… — Patty Murray
You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely… — John Heilemann
A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption.… — Mike Lofgren
The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court. — Ralph Neas
What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares… — Thomas Jefferson
The Senate has passed a new bill that requires TV stations to lower the volume level on commercials. This is great, a hundred of the… — Jimmy Fallon
The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the… — Frederic Farrar
Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's… — Janet Napolitano
As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy. — William Proxmire
Perhaps the most striking thing about the 2015 State of the Union address was not the president at the podium but the audience in the… — Byron York
'Elections have consequences,' President Obama said, setting his new policy agenda just three days after taking office in 2009. Three elections later, the president's party… — Bobby Jindal
The day after Republicans won solid majorities in the House and Senate, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader-to-be Mitch McConnell outlined priorities for… — Cleta Mitchell

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