House Quote by Ritchie Torres

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various…

— Gore Vidal

Gerrymandering is a problem, of course, and the Senate is built in a way that disadvantages Democrats. Unfair as it may be, voter participation…

— Jonathan Capehart

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

You know a Senate race is obviously a much smaller deal than a presidential race. What I think makes a very hard job considerably…

— Michael Bennet

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

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

— Michael Beschloss

We need a senator who fights for things like affordable health care, college and technical school, not tax cuts for wealthy donors. That doesn't…

— Amy McGrath

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

One reason the Founding Fathers thought that states should have two senators was so that smaller states wouldn't get run over and could bring…

— Kent Conrad

While I am a Republican, I'm a conservative first and I'm a constitutional conservative, and in Washington some of the Republicans are oftentimes just…

— Josh Mandel

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

— David Remnick

If I made decisions around here based on the election, I wouldn't be a very good senator.

— Jon Tester