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“Report of Daniel Webster's Speech in the U.S. Senate”

— Herman Melville

“Not simply wanting compensation for destroyed American vessels, he added a still more explosive demand: that Britain pay a staggering $2 billion in indirect…

— Ron Chernow

“his friend had never harbored a second of patience for smooth, charismatic politicians who concealed more than they revealed and whose fallback answer to…

— G.S. Jennsen

Senator Sessions has opposed protections for LGBT individuals. He's spoken out against Freedom Corps' marriage equality decision. He opposed the repeal of Don't Ask,…

— Patrick Leahy

“These great men had no reciprocal appreciation the one for the other. Sumner was honest in the belief that Grant knew nothing but war,…

— Archibald Henry Grimke

“Mike Mansfield had a saying: “It only takes one senator to make a scene. But it takes more than one to make a difference.”…

— Al Franken

“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

“Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation.  He may have wondered how things…

— Dale A. Jenkins

“Once, while I was in college, a guy nearly triggered an aneurism over the phone, overwhelmed with his anger at being bothered by ours…

— Andrew Heaton

Something the committee had not done in 50 years. Jeff Sessions is now the Chairman of the Committee that rejected him.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“Then, too, the senate has a rule that no point is discussed on the same day it is brought up, but rather it is…

— Thomas More

“McConnell and the president were barely on speaking terms. From his August “working holiday” in Bedminster, the president’s staff had tried to organize a…

— Michael Wolff