Good intentions Quote by Joe Biden

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

“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

“Humphrey was to say, and now he was planning to continue doing so, to use the chairmanship, in Humphrey’s words, “to hang on to…

— Robert A. Caro

“Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]”

— Adrian Goldsworthy

“[The Senate] ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.”

— James Madison

“Most of Senators loves their job, with all the perks and influence it carried, but doesn’t hesitate about complaining how dreadful living in Washington…

— Krzysztof Pacyński

“the Senate in 1958. He was the”

— Chris Matthews

“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

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its…

— George Sand

The Senate is an unknowing world

— Robert Caro

“The theory was simple: If a man had enough sense to accumulate a bunch of cash, then he would certainly make a worthy U.S…

— John Grisham

I had always heard that Mitch McConnell was a master legislator and a true loyalist to this institution. But in the 18 months I've…

— Tina Smith