Senate Quotes - Page 28

• The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Political, Detours, Politics

  Newsweek, p. 23, January 23, 1978.

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• The country didn't get that way in a week; we've had years and years of getting behind in our economy. So President [Barack] Obama stepped into a hellhole and people wanted him to change it as soon as he came in. But he's got his adversaries to deal with in the House and Senate, so it's not easy.

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Years, People

  Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

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• What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Two, Worry

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• Now that Mr. Trump is the President-elect: If he chooses, he can, by executive order, repeal most of what President Barack Obama brought into existence, including the thawing of the relationship between the United States and the people of Cuba. And because there is a Republican Senate, a Republican House of Representatives, a Republican president, it is more than likely that his legislative program will be accepted; his nominations to the Supreme Court may very well be accepted.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Order, People, House

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.

  Al Sharpton

  Balance, Confirmation, Enough

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• My take is this. The Republicans control the Senate. They have the majority of the House, and they have the White House. They can do whatever they want to do, really.

  Maxine Waters

  White, House, Majority

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

  Chris Murphy

  Meaningful, Hook, Legislation

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think the relationships that we [with Donald Trump] developed on Capitol Hill are the reason why he's asked me to be a part of the team that's working to move our agenda forward in the House and in the Senate.

  Mike Pence

  Team, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• I served on the budget committee in the Senate, and I remember as vividly as if it were yesterday when we had a hearing in which Alan Greenspan came and justified increasing spending and cutting taxes, saying that we didn't really need to pay down the debt - outrageous in my view.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cutting, Views, Yesterday

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• We must remember that in the House, Congressman [Carlos] Curbelo has a - the same law, and it has a lot of support in the House. It's possible that it will happen first in the House and then go to the Senate.

  Marco Rubio

  Law, House, Support

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• Voters decided otherwise [on me as a president candidate] and I will focus on my work here in the Senate because I have nine months left. And after that, later, as a private citizen, I will continue looking for a way to contribute to the cause of political conservatism to help our state and our country and the issues that interest me. But I really don't want to be nor do I think that I will be invited to be any candidate's vice president.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Thinking, Issues

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• I'm always talking about the issue of Puerto Rico.I also spoke about it on the Senate floor, and I think it should be given the importance, the priority it deserves.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, Talking, Issues

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• I entered politics out of a desire to serve, but I have always really wanted to achieve things in the private sector as well. As a father and a husband, that is my primary obligation, and that will always continue, whether I am in the Senate or out of the Senate.

  Marco Rubio

  Husband, Father, Desire

  Source: www.univision.com

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• I regret that we weren't able to reform Social Security. The fact that we weren't able to when we had majorities in the House and the Senate I think reflected poorly on our political party.

  George W. Bush

  Regret, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• Senate races have tightened along with the presidential race. Watch to see how many Republican Senate candidates outperform Donald Trump - and how many hang on to their seats in states that he loses.

  Mara Liasson

  Race, Presidential, Watches

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If [Donald] Trump drags down a bunch of Senate Republicans, the post-election GOP assessment will be much more pessimistic.

  Mara Liasson

  Assessment, Pessimistic, Election

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When Donald Trump raises money for the party, raises money, a lot of that money goes to the party, and that's fine. If you're doing a door-knocking program, for example, in Wisconsin, it also helps Ron Johnson who's running for senate. It helps the congressional candidates.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Running, Party, Doors

  "Anderson Cooper Interview With Kellyanne Conway Says Hillary Clinton Has Been Fighting For Herself For 30 Years". Interview With Anderson Cooper, lybio.net.

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• The senate intelligence committee announced it would launch a bipartisan investigation into Russia`s alleged interference in the election.

  Donald Trump

  Russia, Election, Investigation

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who, during his campaign, once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions.

  Barack Obama

  Abortion, Friendly, United States

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Senate has to advise and consent. That doesn't mean you have to vote yes; you can vote no. It's not a rubber stamp. But what these guys are doing is, "Wait a minute, we don't have to vote yes or no, and maybe we can trick our voters into not holding us accountable for not voting yes or no."

  Tim Kaine

  Mean, Yes You Can, Waiting

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.

  Ralph Nader

  Block, Democracy, Graveyard

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of him when he ran for the Senate before that. I get excited as I ever did when I see that black man on Air Force One. But I won't settle for symbolism, and our President's record should be open for analysis.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Regret, Book, Writing

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• In pre-Trump Washington where the old rules applied, Rudy Giuliani could never survive the Senate confirmation process.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Confirmation, Process, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Rudy Giuliani would bring conflicts of interest into any Senate confirmation hearing that would be impossible to clear if confirmation hearings operate under the same gravitational forces that they used to in the pre-Trump era.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Would Be, Hearing, Eras

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use?

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Running, United States, Use

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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