Senators Quotes

The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.

I cringe every time republican senators say, "our Democratic friends." Chuck Schumer, if he is your friend, it's a problem. I mean, it shouldn't be, but we know it is.

We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.

A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.

The Chinese are like a tank through a corn field, they just keep mowing through it. Senators want sanctions against countries supporting cyberattacks.

Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

Democratic senators are more scared of their base than they are of the voters.

It was interesting, when the Affordable Care Act passed, Arizona did it immediately, even though they had two Republican senators, a Republican governor, Republican legislature.

Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.

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

I've argued with the senators and congressmen I've talked to. You don't want to be too little too late. If you buy them at the right price, you may be buying two trillion of face value.

I’m a United States senator. I’m not an Israeli senator.

Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.

America has only 100 Senators for 309 million people, but Stormont has 108 members for 1.7 million.

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

I don't think political reform is likely to succeed. [Senators Tom] Udall and [Ron] Wyden, on the intelligence committee, have been sounding the alarm, but they are a minority.

We want them [senators] to be themselves, and I told them, be yourselves and say what you want to say. Don't worry about me.

Hillary Clinton has been a disaster as a senator. A disaster.

I’m planning to stay in politics now, but, you know, George Burns worked until he was 100. I don’t know. I don’t want to be a Senator until I’m honored.

We've seen some good progress, some good forward momentum. We have about Republican senators who have now indicated that they'll meet with Judge Merric Garland.

Even before the hearings that led to confirmation of Chief Justice Roberts, senators were saying they were reserving judgment on how they would vote until they got to know him better at the hearings.

It doesn't entirely make sense that if 51 senators are from one party, and they can stick together, they can do whatever they want. Especially in this age of blatant, shameless gerrymandering.

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

I'm not going to get establishment support. I'm not going to get the support of the governors and the senators, with few exceptions, and many of the major organizations.

The senators know it's important to win statewide to have Hispanics and other immigrant populations supporting them.

I remember having meetings with Republican senators who initially had been trying to engage [Obamacare] but saw that the politics of 'no' were growing inside the Republican Party.

Cannibals are devouring senators.

Senators don't really provide good gossip - until they do, and then it's an A1 story and they're out of a job.

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee - a tradition I'd like very much to continue.

The weirdest thing about Hillary Clinton's email 'scandal' is finding out some of our senators still don't use email.

[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.

I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen.

You don't say that for a senator to be a great senator he has to vote against his constituency.

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.

That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.

Teachers don't need as much as $140,000 a year, ... But, perhaps some senators don't need $140,000 a year either.

The waiters in France could all be senators in the US.

I'm Going To Make Available To Every American The Same Health Care Plan That Senators And Congressmen Give Themselves.

Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney.

Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

No doubt that he will make an excellent senator.

I never thought I would end up being the Senator from New York.

If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.

Michael Moore put out a tweet. He said tell your senators and house members now, you want them to cease all business until they appoint a special committee on [Donald] Trump and the Russians.

How many senators have taken their conception of what America can do from what they’ve seen on the American movie screen?