Senate Quotes - Page 24

• Between [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump's team, I don't see a lot of openings for making real progress.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Team, Majority Leader

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There are even a few [people] who still honestly believe I sold information to [Vladimir] Putin - like personally, in exchange for asylum. And this is after the Senate Intelligence Committee chair, who gets to read the NSA's reporting on my activities every morning, said all of these conspiracies are delusional.

  Edward Snowden

  Morning, Believe, Nsa

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• I think it's not just Republicans who would like to see the Senate run differently. I think there are a reasonable number of Democrats as well.

  Mitch McConnell

  Running, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• The classic example I've used - I'm sure you've heard me say it before - was Mark Begich in Alaska who was here for a full six years and never had a roll call vote on an amendment on the floor of the Senate, which Dan Sullivan tells me he used on virtually a daily basis. So the notion that protecting all of your members from votes is a good idea politically, I think, has been pretty much disproved by the recent [Barack Obama] election.

  Mitch McConnell

  Thinking, Alaska, Years

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• I'm very proud to have joined with conservatives in both the Senate and the House to reform how we target bad guys.

  Ted Cruz

  House, Guy, Reform

  CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• If you vote against the Defense Authorization Act in the Senate, you would also veto it as president.

  Marco Rubio

  President, Vote, Veto

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Senator [Ted] Cruz is not qualified to be president because he doesn't have the right temperament and acted like a maniac when he arrived in the Senate.

  Donald Trump

  President, Temperament, Qualified

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• It was a very easy way to have a group of friends on a very large campus - a sense of identity. It was a great place to learn how to navigate a variety of personalities, which you kind of have to do in life. You've got the shy woman and you've got the obnoxious woman and you've got the brainiac and you've got the social climber and you've got the introvert and the extrovert, and you're all living together. I think it gave me valuable experience in learning how to live with people that are different than you are. And that's an important lesson. You can bet it comes in very handy in the Senate.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, People, Personality

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The wind doesn't bother me. I'm in the US Senate.

  Bob Dole

  Wind, Bother

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• As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Technology, Voice, America

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• In trying to explain our political paralysis, analysts cite President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington, and the Senate filibuster, which has devolved into a super-majority threshold for important legislation. These are large factors to be sure, but that list neglects what may be the biggest culprit of all: the childishness, ignorance, and growing incoherence of the public at large.

  Jacob Weisberg

  Ignorance, Political, Important

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• Sarah Palin. Remember Sarah Palin? She is adorable. She is back on the campaign trail. Really. She's going to campaign in the Senate runoff in Georgia. As soon as she finds out where Georgia is.

  Craig Ferguson

  Adorable, Campaigns, Georgia

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• A top McCain policy adviser claimed this week that McCain's work in the Senate helped create the BlackBerry, saying, 'You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create.' He then handed the BlackBerry to McCain, who attempted to withdraw $20 from it.

  Amy Poehler

  Miracle, Week, Policy

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• As you know, John McCain is an older, white-haired man who has been in the Senate for over twenty years, voted for the Iraq War, and said Barack Obama did not have the experience to be president. I'm sorry, that's our intro for next week when Joe Biden is on, I got confused.

  Jay Leno

  Sorry, Confused, War

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• The Illinois Senate passed a bill on Wednesday to legalize medical marijuana. The bill was passed after the state senator said, 'Come on, dude, pass it. Come on.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Marijuana, Illinois, Bills

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• Senate Democrats vowed Sunday to kill President Bush's energy plan. They think this is their ticket back to the White House in 2004. All they have to do now is figure out a way to get cars to run on beautiful pictures of Alaska.

  Argus Hamilton

  Beautiful, Running, Sunday

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• The Senate was holding hearings on deceptive sweepstakes practices. These companies target the elderly, making them think they're going to get a bunch of money, when in reality they never see any of it. The most popular of these scams is called Social Security.

  Colin Quinn

  Thinking, Reality, Elderly

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• My preference would be to remain in the Senate, ... But you can't say I would refuse to serve in one of those (Cabinet) capacities. It's not the same as vice president.

  John McCain

  President, Vices, Would Be

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• There is no doubt in my mind that Rudy Giuliani in the Senate will be a leader for the people of New York but also for the people of Arizona and the people all over this country.

  John McCain

  Country, New York, People

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• I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States? The vice president has two duties. One is to break a tie in case of a tie vote in the United States Senate... The other is to inquire daily as to the health of the president. Neither one of those are very challenging as compared to being able to live for a good part of the time in the state of Arizona.

  John McCain

  Dark, Thinking, Years

  "News from CNN" with Thelma Gutierrez, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2004.

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• While I support a more comprehensive bill and hope a more extensive package will eventually past the Senate, I also am a realist and know that we must not let the perfect bill be the enemy of real reform.

  John McCain

  Real, Past, Perfect

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• I have known Trent Lott for 20 years, ... I don't believe he's racist. But he must proactively send a message to his colleagues in the Senate and the American people that he is absolutely opposed to any segregation in any form and racism in any form and discrimination in any form.

  John McCain

  Believe, Years, Racism

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• I was not a community organizer before I was elected to the Senate, i spent five and a half years as the solicitor-general of Texas, the chief lawyer for the state of Texas in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.

  Ted Cruz

  Texas, Years, Community

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• After the November elections gave Republicans control of the Senate, voters made clear they wanted change. We were hopeful our leaders got the voters' message. However, after our speaker forced through the (spending bill) by passing it with Democratic votes and without time to read it, it seemed clear that we needed new leadership.

  Louie Gohmert

  Change, Leadership, Hopeful

  "Texas Rep. Gohmert to challenge Boehner for House speaker post". www.foxnews.com. January 4, 2015.

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• I'm not new to the political process; I was making a contribution as the speaker of the third largest and most diverse state in the country well before I even got into the Senate.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Political, States

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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