Argument Quote by Milan Kundera

“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

“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…

— Joe Biden

“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

“He likewise directed, “that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence…

— Jonathan Swift

“Political opinions come from the heart, but the head claims the credit.”

— Guillermo Jimenez

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“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

And lo and behold, people were amazed: Washington was amazed. The country was amazed. And I was amazed that everybody was amazed. Because what…

— Senator John Kerry

Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims…

— Henry Adams

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

I've been saying it at all our Senate Democratic retreats we need to speak to the heart, not in a manipulative way, not in…

— Mazie Hirono

“He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.”

— Pat Conroy