Intellect Quote by Harold L. Ickes

Senator; you've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

— Joseph N. Welch

You don't say that for a senator to be a great senator he has to vote against his constituency.

— Michael Beschloss

“The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as…

— Victor Hugo

When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.

— Everett Dirksen

“The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of…

— Sinclair Lewis

On issues carrying as much emotional freight as race - and there aren't many - a U.S. senator needs to speak with care and…

— Gordon Smith

No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

— Henry F. Ashurst

I believe being a good senator requires two things. Number one, acumen. Number two, interest.

— Trey Gowdy

The senator has got to understand if he's going to have - he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse…

— George W. Bush

I've come to realize that an unencumbered U.S. senator is a profound threat to the whole system. It's somebody that they can't put in…

— Angus King

It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

[The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he…

— Calvin Coolidge