Senate Quotes - Page 13

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

  Carl Lewis

  Running, Politician, States

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• What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance.

  Ted Cruz

  Strong, Character, Thinking

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• Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

  John Barrasso

  Country, Mean, Wyoming

  "Senator Barrasso and Rep. Van Hollen on 'State of the Union'". "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 1, 2011.

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• You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning.

  Evan Bayh

  Running, Home, Years

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• You know a Senate race is obviously a much smaller deal than a presidential race. What I think makes a very hard job considerably easier when you're going to debate is if you have reminded yourself - or somebody has reminded you during the course of your campaign - that consistency is enormously important. That people don't want to hear you say one thing in one part of the state and another thing in another part of the state.

  Michael Bennet

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  "Transcript: Face to Face with Sen. Bennet". Interview with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. October 3, 2012.

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• The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.

  Harry Reid

  Father, Government, Abuse

  "How Schumer and Dems may have sealed Gorsuch's confirmation" by Alex Diaz, www.foxnews.com. March 19, 2017.

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• The Frankenstein of Communism is the product of the Jewish mind, and was turned loose upon the world by the son of a Rabbi, Karl Marx, in the hopes of destroying Christian civilization - as well as others. The testimony given before the Senate of the United States which is take from the many pages of the Overman Report, reveals beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jewish bankers financed the Russian Revolution.

  Kenneth Goff

  Christian, Son, Civilization

  "Still 'Tis Our Ancient Foe". Book by Kenneth Goff, 1962.

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• Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it's suddenly their campaign platform.

  Barack Obama

  Talking, Class, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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

  Mike Lee

  Country, Party, Voice

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• When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.

  Claire McCaskill

  Father, Makeup, Ideas

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• The role of the vice president is to break ties in the Senate and inquire daily into the health of the president.

  John McCain

  Ties, President, Vices

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• While I am humbled by the widespread encouragement of so many and hold in the highest esteem those who serve us in federal office, I know that my head and my heart, my young family's future, and our unfinished work all remain firmly in the State of California - not Washington D.C. Therefore I will not seek election to the U.S. Senate in 2016.

  Gavin Newsom

  Encouragement, Heart, Unfinished Work

  "With Kamala Harris in for Senate bid, Tom Steyer edges closer to a run" by Maeve Reston, www.cnn.com. January 13, 2015.

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• The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation.

  Neal Boortz

  Party, House, Way

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• In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy... I will be part of President Obama's efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform agenda.

  Ken Salazar

  Effort, Independence, President

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• If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay.

  Bob Dole

  Zoos, Feelings, Pay

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• It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Years, Six, Four

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Ellen Malcolm : The Woman Behind All Those Women Candidates". Interview with Jacob Weisberg, articles.latimes.com. November 8, 1992.

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• I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.

  Robert Torricelli

  Loss, Majority, United States

  "Torricelli drops out of N.J. race". www.cnn.com. October 1, 2002.

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

  Robert Torricelli

  United States, Remains, States

  "Torricelli apologizes for ethics 'lapses'". www.cnn.com. July 31, 2002.

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• I should say the leadership's proposal in the Senate and the House are very unpopular. And when people realize it will raise taxes, raise their insurance premiums cost and explode the deficit, they think twice about it.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Thinking, People, House

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I've got the best job in the world being a senator from the United States, a senator from South Carolina in the United States Senate, representing South Carolina in the United States Senate is a dream job for me, but the world is literally falling apart. And we can't get anything done here at home. So that drives my thinking more than anything else.

  Lindsey Graham

  Dream, Jobs, Fall

  "What's at stake for US as Saudi-led airstrikes pound Yemen?". "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2015.

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• Marco Rubio doesn't go to the United States Senate. I must say, if I were a United States senator, I would be so honored to be in that magnificent chamber voting for the people of Florida.

  Donald Trump

  Florida, People, Voting

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Senate races are different from House races, in the sense that they are more candidate-driven. The higher the office - that is, I mean, governor, senator, president - the more important the candidate.

  Judy Woodruff

  Mean, Race, Office

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• Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis.

  George Will

  Principles, May, Might

  "Mitt Romney, the pretzel candidate". www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2011.

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• It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.

  Jay Sekulow

  Moving, Responsibility, Justice

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• There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.

  Tony Snow

  Use, Filibuster, Governing

  "The Head-in-the-Toilet Test", www.foxnews.com. May 19, 2005.

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