Attention Quote by Kent Conrad

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

— Jay Leno

The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based…

— George Packer

The Founders of the U.S. gave the senators a term of office three times longer than that of a representative precisely to encourage a…

— Al Gore

The structure of the Senate concentrates power in a small subset of states that are much whiter, much more rural, much more conservative than…

— Ritchie Torres

One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states,…

— Olympia Snowe

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 appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of…

— James Madison

You know, the notion that one senator who represents a state smaller than my congressional district could have the power to unilaterally derail the…

— Ritchie Torres

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

It doesn't entirely make sense that if 51 senators are from one party, and they can stick together, they can do whatever they want.…

— Gene Weingarten

Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of a senate, is the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts of legislation.…

— James Madison

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

— Elihu Root