Senate Quotes

When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support... He is the right person for the job.

Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose

The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.

The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.

I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time.

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.

The U.S. Senate is considering a bill that would tax Botox. When Botox users heard this, they were horrified. Well, I think they were horrified. It's difficult to tell.

I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.

I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.

Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.

In the Iowa senate, I helped pass the largest tax cut in state history - returning over four billion dollars in savings and putting more money back in the pockets of hard-working Iowa families.

A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

The role of the vice president is to break ties in the Senate and inquire daily into the health of the president.

I want to remind all Americans that the Senate has a very important responsibility to confirm only well- qualified individuals who will faithfully interpret the law and the Constitution.

This [Judge Samuel Alito] may be one of the most significant or consequential nominations that the Senate will vote on since I've been here in the last three decades.

I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

Yesterday Jerry Springer bowed out of the Ohio Senate race. He said, 'If I can't run the most embarrassing campaign in America, then I'm out of here.'

Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group.

If Trump wins, the only thing blocking complete implementation of the programs of Trump, Paul Ryan, the Koch brothers, etc., is the Senate filibuster by the Democrats.

I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.

Everybody thought Barack Obama was going to [inspire people] when he came to Washington, but, you know, the Senate seems like the place where smart people go to die.

Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony.

The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.

I think after Sam Nunn left, I'm the last guy in the Senate who got a majority white male vote in their state.

If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay.

Under the Constitution, the president, not the Senate, nominates and appoints judges. The Senate has a different role. We must give our advice .

Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.

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 and block it.

The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.

In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

The real con artist is Senator Marco Rubio who was elected in Florida and who has the worst voting record in the United States Senate. He doesn't go to vote. He's absent.

Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate.(on the birth of his granddaughter)

I think women bring a different perspective into Senate and that we tend to be more collaborative in our approach.

The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use?

In pre-Trump Washington where the old rules applied, Rudy Giuliani could never survive the Senate confirmation process.

He addressed a black lawyer as "boy". That's why Jeff Sessions couldn't get through Senate confirmation process under the old rules followed by Democrats and Republicans.

I'm very proud to have joined with conservatives in both the Senate and the House to reform how we target bad guys.

The only tool the Democrats have is in the Senate, and it's the filibuster.

And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.

I've been outspent by my opponents every time I've run for U.S. Senate.