Aristocratic Quote by George Packer

Creating senates, the French critics said, implied that there was another social order besides the people represented in the houses of representatives. [John] Adams…

— Gordon S. Wood

When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our…

— Claire McCaskill

One of the reasons that the Senate was structured and founded the way it is, as opposed to the House, it was designed for…

— Rush Limbaugh

The senate was wealthy people and it wasn't elected, it was chosen through legislatures, which themselves were under private influence, powerful influence. They were…

— Noam Chomsky

The Senate was the equivalent of an aristocracy at the beginning. Senators were not even elected; they were appointed in the early days. Then…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

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

As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant to reflect the continuity of…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in…

— Olympia Snowe

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

The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the…

— Max Baucus

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

— Elihu Root