Democracy Quote by Harold Ford, Jr

Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York…

— Roscoe Conkling

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

— Laura Bush

Running for Congress isn't something I ever thought I would do.

— Deb Haaland

I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.

— Robert Torricelli

I don't have any interest in running for the Senate.

— Phil Scott

I will continue to reject ideas that have no place in the Republican Party or the U.S. Congress.

— Nancy Mace

I think we should not do what the Republicans did, which is to spend eight years saying they would do absolutely nothing because we…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to serve in…

— Bob Kerrey

I wouldn't want to try to get involved in the Republican Party.

— Ken Wahl

If Democrats in Washington haven't got enough sense to own the issue of political reform, I give up on them entirely.

— Molly Ivins

As a Democrat, I would just hate to be in a position of only being able to accomplish what Mitch McConnell allows us to.

— John Fetterman

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

— Jesse Helms