Activity Quote by Rush Limbaugh

The senate was wealthy people and it wasn't elected, it was chosen through legislatures, which themselves were under private influence, powerful influence. They were…

— Noam Chomsky

The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based…

— George Packer

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

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

— Robert Caro

The Senate, compared to the House, is where things are supposed to slow down, by design, Founding Father design. The Founding Fathers were hell-bent…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

One of the reasons that the Senate was structured and founded the way it is, as opposed to the House, it was designed for…

— Rush Limbaugh

Senate races are different from House races, in the sense that they are more candidate-driven. The higher the office - that is, I mean,…

— Judy Woodruff

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

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have…

— Steve Chabot

That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it…

— Ralph Nader

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

— Tom Udall