Senate Quotes

We want a Republican majority in the house and the senate, there's no question.

Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.

I admired Eugene McCarthy’s courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the Washington Post, I remained an admirer.

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

When Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions for federal district court judgeship, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination.

According to the old rules, Senator Jeff Sessions could not be confirmed by the United States Senate because in fact he wasn't.

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.

Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.

Nobody in the Senate on a bipartisan fashion trusts the Iranians. They lie. They cheat. They're a murderous regime. They've been trying to develop a nuclear weapon.

The GOP establishment, in particular, is facing a pick-your-poison kind of decision. Many establishment Republicans dislike [Ted] Cruz personally. He has no Senate endorsements.

If [Donald] Trump drags down a bunch of Senate Republicans, the post-election GOP assessment will be much more pessimistic.

Senate races have tightened along with the presidential race. Watch to see how many Republican Senate candidates outperform Donald Trump - and how many hang on to their seats in states that he loses.

After all, the U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.

I'm always talking about the issue of Puerto Rico.I also spoke about it on the Senate floor, and I think it should be given the importance, the priority it deserves.

If you vote against the Defense Authorization Act in the Senate, you would also veto it as president.

When I got to the Senate, one of the things that most bothered me is this lack of urgency about the major issues.

I'm not new to the political process; I was making a contribution as the speaker of the third largest and most diverse state in the country well before I even got into the Senate.

You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate.

Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.

Washington always has a high level of hypocrisy, right, but I think the level of hypocrisy that has come out of the United States Senate on both sides of the aisle is amazing.

I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America.

I don't get asked a lot of questions about who is the best political candidate or what my position is on what the Senate is about to do.

When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, DC, I did everything I could to defeat cap and trade. I didn't work to implement cap and trade.

The Tea Party has an important voice in the country and now they have a voice in the U.S. Senate.

By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.

I think it's not just Republicans who would like to see the Senate run differently. I think there are a reasonable number of Democrats as well.

We have an anti-choice president, an anti-choice House and Senate. They might pass a national ban. It's already virtually impossible for people in some areas to get an abortion.

An example is ObamaCare, which is now embattled in the Senate. If that goes through the way [Barack] Obama wants, we will have something very much like the British system.

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

I do think women change the discourse in Senate and I think it is more civil when women are involved.

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

I think Im pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

[Tom Cotton] is seen as a real rising star in the Republican Party. He's the youngest member of the United States Senate, routinely described as an up and comer.

A special pathway to citizenship is off the table... when I talk to members of the group in the Senate, they're saying that we're both saying the same thing.

With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American business and farmers

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

We need more Democrats in the Senate -Like Custer needed more arrows.

I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.

I mean, we've had Republican majorities in the House and even the Senate for a couple of years. How has that worked out, stopping [Barack] Obama, hmm? Seriously.

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

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

If the Senate is the world's greatest deliberative body, the House is poised to be the world's greatest tweeting one.

Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow.

But listening to him [Barack Obama] speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state Senate.

The Vice-President is supreme boss of the Senate.

We'll be getting new health insurance and we'll presumably do it through my job with the Senate, and so we'll be on the federal exchange with millions of others on the federal exchange.

Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.