Senate Quotes

I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
Sonia Sotomayor

Hope, Blessed, Person

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

Around, President, Running

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.
Arlen Specter

Equal, Protection, Amendment

There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day!
Arlen Specter

My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.
Arlen Specter

Party, Regardless, Label

It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.
Arlen Specter

Win, Down, United

Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.
J. C. Watts

Political, Single, Trying

And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent.
Sibel Edmonds

Saying, Corruption, Two

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

Happens, Common, Sink

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.
Dick Cheney

Vote, Often, Security

I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution.
Peter Camejo

Change, Cannot, Act

I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice, all Americans ought to be able to hold insurance companies accountable, I think we will have 60 votes in the United States Senate for a strong bill.
Ron Wyden

Strong, Able, Choice

The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation.
Ron Wyden

Special, Same, Reason

In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
Karl Rove

Decision, May, Regret

House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.
John Boehner

Trust, Hope, Through

The Republicans in the House and Senate took the district that I firmly represent, 22 in south Florida, from a D plus one to a D plus five almost a D plus six district, which means you are given a five to six percent registration advantage to Democrats. They drew in more Democrats into the district I represent.
Allen West

Means, Almost, House

But when I look at the fact that today is 1,000 days that we have not had a budget for the United States of America, you know, the House, one of the things we did, we passed a budget last year. But that is still sitting over there at the Senate. And so we have got to get this country back on track.
Allen West

Today, Country, America

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.
Jeb Bush

Office, Leaders, Tax

We must return conservatives to the majority in the U.S. Senate.
Jeb Bush

Return, Majority

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.
Robert Caro

Long, Through, Two

You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.
Charles Schumer

Government, Three, President

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.
Charles Schumer

Serious, Rules, Matters

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.
Ian Somerhalder

Love, Speak, Able

We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
Barbara Mikulski

Work, Women, Hard

I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
Carl Lewis

Become, Wanted, State

We'll look to the fall and if there is a new president and a new Senate that's part of a Congress willing to change, that's the next step.
Scott Walker

Change, Next, President

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.
Barbara Boxer

Education, Women, Woman

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
Barbara Boxer

Health, Done, Cannot

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

Work, Made, Leader

The Senate is an unknowing world.
Robert Caro

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