Senate Quotes

McCain is the most unifying figure in the Senate. Barack Obama is so far left. Turning to her co-host, Joy Behar, an Obama supporter, she said: Do you want some more Barack Obama Kool-Aid, or what?

When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks.

The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.

I think it would be frankly a retrograde thing for Pauline Hanson to be elected to the Senate.

The [President's] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right to decide upon its Propriety or Impropriety.

It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.

I regret that we weren't able to reform Social Security. The fact that we weren't able to when we had majorities in the House and the Senate I think reflected poorly on our political party.

Democrats didn't agree with policies. How do I know? Because they voted against them when they came up on the floor of the House and the Senate.

When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and says to himself, 'You're presidential material,'

I like Chris Christie also. I like him a lot as a person. He didn't do anything to help me when I thinking of running for senate in New Jersey. But I give him a little slack.

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.

We focused attention on what some believe are the flaws in the process leading to Senate consideration of the bill and the flaws of the bill itself.

I am considering running for Senate, as well as other opportunities.

The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.

It wasn't until 1998 that I ever seriously thought about running for office. And I didn't make up my mind to do that until 1999, and then I ran for the Senate. It was really hard for me.

I have a lot of experience dealing with classified material, starting when I was on the Senate Armed Services Committee going into the four years as secretary of state.

Israel controls the United States Senate.

The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.

Now the Democrats control the Senate. But the good news is that now the Republicans can admit that Strom Thurmond has been dead since 1988.

John Kerry has apologized for saying those who do not study hard and do their homework will get stuck in Iraq. Now, those that do not campaign well and are boring will end up stuck in the Senate.

Senator Chris Dodd unveiled his plan to reduce corruption in the Senate. He's retiring.

Volumes in the series on Lyndon Johnson, including Master of the Senate and The Path Power, describe how Johnson created resources out of nothing and built a substantial power base.

I do not intend to allow the Senate to rubber-stamp the president's plan to reward the Chinese Communists.

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

Republicans also took control of the Senate after gaining another seven seats. I haven't seen the GOP get this many seats since Chris Christie made an airline reservation.

Senate Democrats blocked President Obama's trade bill yesterday because they're worried it could hurt jobs. It's not an issue for Republicans, since they've all found work as presidential candidates.

I've been a strong supporter of public financing my whole career. I'm the first guy to introduce a public financing bill to the United States Senate in 1973.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

I hope President-elect Trump will work with me and with the rest of the Senate to try to keep more jobs here in America.

You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.

The Senate is indeed a deliberative body, and that quality serves the nation well. A slow-moving government helps us maintain a stable government. But slow moving is not the same as immobile.

I loved being in the Senate. That was a wonderful experience.

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

George Bush's vision does not live up to the America I enlisted in the Navy to defend, the America I have fought for in the Senate, and the America that I hope to lead as president.

I was discouraged when I read that [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell said that Trans-Pacific Partnership was dead, but then I was told he turned around and said, "No, it's not."

The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament.

There is no doubt in my mind that Rudy Giuliani in the Senate will be a leader for the people of New York but also for the people of Arizona and the people all over this country.

My preference would be to remain in the Senate, ... But you can't say I would refuse to serve in one of those (Cabinet) capacities. It's not the same as vice president.

I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.

Despite his infirmities, Strom Thurmond showed up to work every day and did not miss a Senate vote in his final year, though no one is sure if a shouted 'Bingo!' counted as a yea or a nay.

Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

There is absolutely zero chance that ObamaCare will be repealed while Democrats control the Senate and President Obama is in the White House.

It's always easier in the Senate minority to maintain unity.