Debate Quote by Mitch McConnell

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

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

— Tom Udall

From an institution standpoint, I want the American people to understand that the Senate can function, even on the most serious things.

— Richard Burr

The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only…

— Tom Udall

The majority in the Senate is prepared to restore the Senate's traditions and precedents to ensure that regardless of party, any president's judicial nominees,…

— Mitch McConnell

In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

— Lamar Alexander

When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our…

— Claire McCaskill

My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.

— Mo Brooks

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that…

— Calvin Coolidge

The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of…

— John Cornyn

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does…

— John Jay Hooker

We are confident that just like the American people can, the Senate can also multitask and they can do their constitutional duty while continuing…

— Jen Psaki