Senate Quotes - Page 2

• Hillary Clinton's all talk. It doesn't get done. All you have to do is take a look at her Senate run. Take a look at upstate New York.

  Donald Trump

  Running, New York, Looks

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, Book, Names

  "A Man Without a Country". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (pp. 102-103), September 15, 2005.

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• When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Umpires, Law, Liberty

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.206, Library of Alexandria

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• Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Liberty, Stronger, Advocating

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• The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony.

  Gracie Allen

  World, Cash, Balconies

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• President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

  Peter Fenn

  Usa, President, Problem

  "The tyranny of the minority" by Peter Fenn, www.politico.com. March 19, 2009.

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• My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

  Joseph Addison

  War, Two, Voice

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1856). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703”, p.187

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• The Senate being tied is a start. Now, if only it could be gagged.

  Bob Thaves

  Congress, Tied, Ifs

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• It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Latin, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, Рипол Классик

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• I have a lot of experience dealing with classified material, starting when I was on the Senate Armed Services Committee going into the four years as secretary of state.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, Four, Starting

  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's Remarks at a Military Forum, time.com. September 7, 2016.

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• When I was in the Senate, I had a number of trade deals that came before me, and I held them all to the same test. Will they create jobs in America? Will they raise incomes in America? And are they good for our national security? Some of them I voted for.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Numbers, America

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Philosophical, Giving, Society

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• In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take a view of the ends to be served by it. These were,first, to protect the people against their rulers, secondly, to protect the people against the transient impressions into which they themselves might be led.

  James Madison

  Views, Order, People

  James Madison, Edward J. Larson, Michael P. Winship (2011). “The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison”, p.86, Modern Library

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• When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.

  John Breaux

  Independent, Working Together, Done

  "Interview With John Breaux". "CNN Live Today" with Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. January 3, 2002.

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• There is only one thing I want to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.

  William Howard Taft

  Mistake, Thinking, Ohio

  Speech before the Ohio Society, Washington, D.C. "Congressional Record", Volume 53, p. 8527, May 23, 1916.

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• Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bears to the entire population of the State. It is for this reason that I have never been in favor of restricting their representation in our State Senate to a strictly population basis. It is the same reason that the founding fathers of our country gave balanced representation to the States of the Union, equal representation in one House and proportionate representation based upon population in the other.

  Earl Warren

  Country, Father, House

  The San Francisco Chronicle, p. 3, October 30, 1948.

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• My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.

  Don Nickles

  Oklahoma, States

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• I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America.

  Max Baucus

  Thinking, America, Want

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• President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

  Bob Dole

  Wish, President, Needs

  "Bob Dole: Great American" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. June 25, 2012.

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• When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.

  Everett Dirksen

  Moving, House, Body

  "Farrell: Channeling Everett Dirksen" by Vince Farrell, www.cnbc.com. August 6, 2009.

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• I understand the chairman of the Senate Ethics comittee is going to examine the check-bouncing scandal with a microscope. ...makes sense... If you're going to look at ethics in Congress, a microscope is what you need.

  Jay Leno

  Needs, Looks, Politics

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• People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Government, People, Common Sense

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• I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Color, Helm, Colleagues

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• The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Body, Congress

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• It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.

  George Packer

  Broken, Cliche

  "Transcript: George Packer on ‘The Empty Chamber’". Interview with Tom Casciato, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2010.

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