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Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon…

— Robert Caro

Seniority actually means something in the Senate.

— Lisa Murkowski

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

Growing up as a Head Start kid, I never expected to run for Senate.

— Ben Ray Lujan

The Senate was the equivalent of an aristocracy at the beginning. Senators were not even elected; they were appointed in the early days. Then…

— Rush Limbaugh

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up…

— Fred Thompson

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 history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when…

— Lindsey Graham

There's a learning curve to understanding how the Senate operates.

— Luther Strange

After the November elections gave Republicans control of the Senate, voters made clear they wanted change. We were hopeful our leaders got the voters'…

— Louie Gohmert