Senate Quotes

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I think [Steve Scalise] is a good man I am not going to vote in that regard because I believe Israel controls the Senate they control the House of Representatives they control the media .

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.

If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... 'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,' I would have done it.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

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 you're in charge.

To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

A lot of tight Senate races out there. Let's hit those chips with another dash of salsa, Ed Bradley.

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

This country is never going to move forward unless we end Republican rule in the House and Senate.

In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

Jeff Sessions is the lone voice in the Senate.

That's true that Sen. Robert Bird was in the Klan and a lot of people were friends of Robert Byrd in the U.S. Senate, Democrats and Republicans.

My take is this. The Republicans control the Senate. They have the majority of the House, and they have the White House. They can do whatever they want to do, really.

I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.

I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973.

I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.

The presidents against Congress, the Senate is against the House, people are against politicians, and I'm against cats in the house.

Republican control of the Senate = expanded neocon wars in Syria and Iraq. Boots on the ground are coming!

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs.

Women are beginning to feel that they are not fairly represented. As we say, 2% may be fine for fat in milk, but not for the United States Senate.

The Senate is an unknowing world

My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.

Republicans think that [Ted] Cruz would be like Barry Goldwater. He'd lose in a landslide and pull the party down with him. They'd lose Senate and House seats.

We in the Senate refer to Sen. Gillibrand as the hottest member.

The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony.

We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.

I have been for border security for years. I voted for border security in the United States Senate. And my comprehensive immigration reform plan of course includes border security.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]

I'm working on restoring a cabinet over the obstruction of Senate Democrats. It will be one of the great cabinets ever assembled in American history.

Tea Party has now cost the Republicans 5 senate seats. My next donation is going to them.

I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.

The chaplain of the Senate does not pray for the Senate. He watches the Senate and prays for the country.

As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.

The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process.

Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.

I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.

Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.

If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.