Senate Quotes

• In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.

  Richard Burr

  Challenges, Working Together, Looks

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• Trade it may help, society extend,
  But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend:
  It raises armies in a nation's aid,
  But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Money, Army, Land

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• Trent Lott has regained a position of leadership. He was the former majority leader who lost his post for racially insensitive commentary. I believe he mentioned that Strom Thurmond in 1948, who ran as a segregationist candidate, should have won. ... But now, sound the irony alarm. He has recaptured a position and his position -- I kid you not -- in the Senate will be minority whip. So, my guess is he takes to that job like, let's say, white on rice.

  Jon Stewart

  Jobs, Believe, Kids

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• About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

  Will Rogers

  Prayer, America, United States

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• Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.

  Ernest Hollings

  Home, Nursing, Said

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• The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Political, Honor, World

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• And I took a walk and I just went to prayer and I said Lord, what would you have me do in the Minnesota state senate? And just through prayer I knew that I was to introduce the marriage amendment in Minnesota.

  Michele Bachmann

  Prayer, Minnesota, Introducing

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• Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

  Will Rogers

  Government, Rome, House

  "Dreams Come Due: Government and Economics as If Freedom Mattered". Book by John Galt, p. 235, 1986.

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Presidential, Guilt, Answers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sudan replaced the U.S. on the U.N. Human Rights Commission joining Syria, and Cuba. So now, the commission members have no interest in upholding the stated mission of the panel. It's just like the Senate Ethics Committee.

  Argus Hamilton

  Rights, Cuba, Joining

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• It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.

  Conrad Black

  Hypocrite, Sitting, Biden

  "The World According to Conrad Black". www.thestar.com. March 11, 2007.

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• The Senate is the big prize. Until recently, Democrats felt confident they could get the four seats they needed to take back control if [Hillary] Clinton is in the White House and Vice President Tim Kaine held the tie-breaking vote.

  Mara Liasson

  White, Ties, House

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Powerful, Political, Machines

  John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

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• 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.

  Joe Biden

  Strong, Careers, Guy

  "Meet the Press" with Brian Williams, www.nbcnews.com. June 22, 2008.

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

  Jeb Bush

  Running, Believe, Cutting

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• 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

  Hard Work, Fighting, Squares

  "Mikulski: We’ll fight with ‘shoulders square, lipstick on’" by Mary C. Curtis, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• 1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six to the United States Senate.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Years, Office, United States

  "Getting Beyond 'Firsts'” by Dee Dee Myers, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2010.

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• 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

  Matter, Administration, Domes

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• I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.

  Michele Bachmann

  Running, Children, Years

  "'Hannity' Primary Part 2: Michele Bachmann". www.foxnews.com. July 01, 2011.

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• Diversity is so important for me, particularly in the United States Senate, and it's been important to every job that I've held. Whether you're in government or the private sector, we should be just as diverse as the community that we represent.

  Catherine Cortez Masto

  Jobs, Government, Diversity

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'

  Evan Bayh

  Two, Today, Determined

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

  Joe Biden

  Years, United States, I Have Learned

  "Meet the Candidates" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. April 29, 2007.

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• 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

  Running, Office, Floating

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Waiting, Majority, Reform

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

  Laura Bush

  Running, New York, Moments

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