Senators Quotes

Senators Quote of the day

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

We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.

The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down.

I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

It is not up to the senators to determine whether an NGO is bogus or not

Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?

It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot.

Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.

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

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Senator Joseph McCarthy was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived.

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it

'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

I'm gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent. To the blood bank!

If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.

I simply cannot vote for Senator Obama because he's not pro-life.

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.

We are all equal on this floor, and a senator must keep his word.

I've been an Obama supporter since he announced he was campaigning. I was aware of him as a senator, but I wasn't as engaged as I probably should've been.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

That's what I like about you, senator, you're kicking it old-school.

I am the exception to the rule that all senators see themselves in the Oval Office.

Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible.

For senators to complain that they didn't know this was happening, we had many, many meetings that have been both classified and unclassified that members have been invited to.

Let's cause some senators distress.

I haven't had senators advocating for me.

I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.

As a Senator I am opposed to duelling. As Ben. Wade, I recognize the code.

No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real. And it comes from the very nature of what judges do.

If there were an ounce of courage in this body I would be joined by other senators… saying they will not tolerate this.

At the end of the day, Obamacare is bad for America. Washington, D.C., exempted themselves. U.S. senators still do not have to be on Obamacare.

Nominees [to Supreme Court] shouldn't be expected to pre-commit to ruling on certain issues in a certain way. Nor should senators ask nominees to pledge to rule on issues in a particular way.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.

You have a hundred senators, but for anything to happen you need 60, which makes it really hard for anything to happen.

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.

Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

A lot of senators are so worried about convention and how they look that they wouldn't let their hair down if they had any.

The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.

A senator got up today in Congress and called his fellow senators sons of wild jackasses. Now, if you think the senators were hot, imagine how the jackasses must feel.

[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.

A message to progressives: By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy.

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