Senate Quotes

497 Senate quotes by 335 unique authors

We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the… — Alberto Gonzales
When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support... He is the right person for the job. — Saxby Chambliss
I've been outspent by my opponents every time I've run for U.S. Senate. — Russ Feingold
I'm one of the only members of the U.S. Senate who isn't a millionaire. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a millionaire. But there… — Russ Feingold
In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington. Early in… — Zell Miller
I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement… — John Jay Hooker
QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the… — Ambrose Bierce
You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate. — Mark Pryor
Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against. — Irvine Welsh
It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true. — George Packer
The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate. — Hendrik Hertzberg
George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate and the House… — Peggy Noonan
Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key… — Quintus Tullius Cicero
We call on the Senate to reject any judicial nominee who does not affirm fundamental civil rights, including a woman's right [to obtain an abortion… — Susana Martinez
Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman, including an $8,000… — Jon Stewart
Which of the following two groups contains the most former grand dragons of the Ku Klux Klan - the first 59 Tea Party people you… — Howie Carr
[C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite-the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals… — H. L. Mencken
The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he… — Aristotle
All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that… — John F. Kennedy
The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors. — Ambrose Bierce
I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott. — Carol Moseley Braun
People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government -… — Carol Moseley Braun
If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for… — S I Hayakawa
In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take a view of the… — James Madison
When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going… — John Breaux

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