Senate Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position.

  Grover Norquist

  Party, Taken, Years

  "Grover Norquist: 'The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit'". Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. March 9, 2011.

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• If you want to run for the United States Senate, you hire a consultant who will do polling for you, who will tell you the kinds of television ads you should run, who will tell you that most of the money you raise has got to go into TV. Raising money, and then putting that money into the hands of consultants, who then put on TV ads - that's more or less what campaigns are about. We've got to change that.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Hands, Tvs

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.

  William J. Clinton

  Years, Historical, Democracy

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.70, Best Books on

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• I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubbles power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Fighting, Years, United States

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• It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.

  John Jay Hooker

  Law, Advice, President

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• The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.

  John Jay Hooker

  Giving, Advice, President

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• Even more dramatic, Alex Todorov at Princeton has shown us that judgments of political candidates' faces in just one second predict 70 percent of U.S. Senate and gubernatorial race outcomes, and even, let's go digital, emoticons used well in online negotiations can lead to you claim more value from that negotiation. If you use them poorly, bad idea. Right? So when we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others, how they judge us and what the outcomes are. We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals, and that's ourselves.

  Amy Cuddy

  Thinking, Ideas, Race

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• Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business. And what that sends to my generation is, one day, you can just wake up and run for Senate, no matter how [much] lack of experience you have.

  Meghan McCain

  Running, Real, Office

  "O'Donnell and Coons". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. October 17, 2010.

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• I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.

  Clara Barton

  Usual, Accomplished

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• 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

  Issues, Quality, Together

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• The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Office, Campaigns, Minorities

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• My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Husband, Men, Groups

  "Do Tell: Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Funny Senator". Interview with Mary Ann Akers, voices.washingtonpost.com. June 8, 2007.

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• As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.

  Bob Dole

  Country, Hands, Long

  "The Book of Bob: Choice Words, Memorable Men". Book by Tom Crisp, 2007.

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• One of the dangers of being here [the Senate] a while is you may have been on record directly and diametrically opposed to what one is saying today.

  John Cornyn

  Records, May, Today

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• Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas-where we all understood he wanted authority to act-but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens. I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused.

  Tom Daschle

  Exercise, President, United States

  "Bush's NSA Hubris" by Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. January 20, 2006.

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Arrows, Political, Needs

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• Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Winning, Civilization, Would Be

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• As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity of walking onto the California Senate floor with rifles, demanding that Black people have the right to bear arms and the right to self-defense, made me sit back and take a long look at them.

  Assata Shakur

  Party, Self, California

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• Treason is a strong word, but not too strong to characterize the situation in which the Senate is the eager, resourceful, and indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be.

  David Graham Phillips

  Strong, Army, People

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• The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Real, Political, Knuckleheads

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• I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.

  Byron Dorgan

  Political, Proud, Privilege

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• The Senate is an unknowing world

  Robert Caro

  World, Unknowing

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• Let the record show that you can be a United States senator for 21 years. You can be 79 years old. You can be the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and one of the most recognizable and widely-respected veteran public servants in your nation. But if you are female while all of those things, men who you defeat in arguments will still respond to you by calling you hysterical and telling you to calm down. They'll patronize you and say they admire your passion, 'sweetie,' but they deal in facts, not your silly, girly feelings. It's inescapable. You can set your watch by it.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Girly, Silly, Passion

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