Senate Quotes - Page 14

• But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to serve in the Senate if I arrive there without permission to do the things I think need to be done.

  Bob Kerrey

  Thinking, Winning, Order

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• Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

  John McCain

  United States, Defense, Boxers

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. October 18, 2010.

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• Over my 24 years in the Senate, Jim, I've never voted against anyone because of their substantive views.

  Christopher Dodd

  Views, Years

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• The great majority of the Senate of the United States...somewhere around 80 percent...are completely in support of Israel, anything Israel wants. This has been demonstrated time and again, and this has made it difficult.

  J. William Fulbright

  Israel, Support, Majority

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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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• 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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• Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is, you ran in '94 and lost. That's why you weren't serving in the Senate with Rick Santorum. The fact is, you had a very bad re-election rating, you dropped out of office, you had been out of state for something like 200 days preparing to run for president. You didn't have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what you do. You were running for president while you were governor.

  Newt Gingrich

  Running, Office, President

  Newt Gingrich at GOP Primary debate at Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, New Hampshire, www.washingtonpost.com. January 8, 2012.

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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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• I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.

  John Thune

  Fighting, America, United States

  "Senator John Thune Doesn't Plan to Run For President". www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2011.

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• It used to be in the Senate that if you were filibustering, you stood up, there was a physical dimension to it, that you when you became exhausted, you'd have to leave the floor. That was the idea of the filibuster.

  Tom Udall

  Ideas, Dimensions, Exhausted

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2010.

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• The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.

  Tom Udall

  Broken, People, Way

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• Ronald Reagan was one of our great foreign policy Presidents. He did not come from the Senate. He did not come from the foreign policy world. He was a governor, but his resolve, his clarity of purpose, his intelligence, his capacity to deal with complex issues and solve tough problems served him extremely well, and if I were elected President, I hope I could rely upon those same qualities.

  Mitt Romney

  Rely Upon, Clarity Of Purpose, Issues

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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