Senate Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• According to the old rules, Senator Jeff Sessions could not be confirmed by the United States Senate because in fact he wasn`t.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  United States, Facts, Senators

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate filibustered - the DREAM Act in 2010? Washington promised a path to citizenship, not just a roadblock to deportation.

  Christine Pelosi

  Dream, House, Deportation

  "Feminists Must Advance Immigrants’ Rights as Women’s Rights" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• In the United States Senate, one of the things I observed in the early days - and it's still used - and that is that you take someone's argument and then you misrepresent it and misstate and disagree with it. And it's very effective. I've done it myself a number of times. But eventually, eventually people catch on.

  Edward Kennedy

  Freedom, Numbers, People

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• It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed--and we face other delays during the present session because most of the Members of the Congress are thinking in terms of next Autumn's election. However, that is one of the prices that we who live in democracies have to pay. It is, however, worth paying, if all of us can avoid the type of government under which the unfortunate population of Germany and Russia must exist.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Autumn, Thinking, Russia

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• For some of us it seems like yesterday when Ike was in the White House, the U.S. Senate censured Joe McCarthy, and the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public school was unconstitutional.

  Malcolm Forbes

  School, White, Yesterday

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• I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do not think they ought to make partisan politics out of appointments to the Cabinet.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Ferrell, Calvin Coolidge, Robert H. Ferrell, Howard H. Quint (1979). “TALKATIVE PRESIDENT OFF”, Dissertations-G

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• At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Firsts, Students

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• [The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he is better suited to be President than the President, and thinks he might have been President except for luck.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Thinking, Arrogance

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• I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. Given the choice between being reviled in Washington, DC, and appreciated in Texas, or reviled in Texas and appreciated in Washington, I would take the former 100 out of 100 times.

  Ted Cruz

  Leadership, Wisdom, Work

  "Cruz slams fellow GOP senators" by Kevin Robillard, www.politico.com. October 20, 2013.

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• I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

  Chris Christie

  Leadership, Work, Reality

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• The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.

  John Cornyn

  Leadership, Running, Party

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• For three decades, Senator Arlen Specter served the people of Pennsylvania with independence, toughness, determination and an unflinching devotion to the best interests of his constituents and our country. From the committee room to the Senate chamber, Senator Specter offered a voice of reason and passion in every debate - always willing to reach across the aisle and work across party lines to get the job done, regardless of political gamesmanship or gain.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Determination, Jobs

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• They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.

  Harry Reid

  Rivers, Water, Flow

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• The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the Senate of the United States might possibly improve its manners. Perhaps in our desire for simplicity, absence of title, or badge of office we may have thrown over too much.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Government, Office, Simplicity

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• If the Senate is the world's greatest deliberative body, the House is poised to be the world's greatest tweeting one.

  Ruth Marcus

  House, World, Body

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• I do think the most important thing we need in leadership in our country, not just in the presidency but in the United States Senate, are people that have a clear vision of what the role of government should be in our lives and what the role of America should be in the world.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Moments ago, the U.S. Senate decided to do the unthinkable about gun violence - nothing at all. Over two years ago, when I was shot point-blank in the head, the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. Four months ago, 20 first-graders lost their lives in a brutal attack on their school, and the U.S. Senate chose to do nothing. It's clear to me that if members of the U.S. Senate refuse to change the laws to reduce gun violence, then we need to change the members of the U.S. Senate.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  School, Gun, Two

  "Obama: 'shameful' Senate killed off gun control amendment" by Jim Newell, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2013.

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• If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I think we've taken it to an art form.

  Dick Durbin

  Art, Taken, Frustration

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• Why are some people like Chuck Schumer, who`s probably going to be leader of the Senate, why is he switching from a big city financial center pro-trader to being an anti-trader? Is that because of upstate New York? What`s going on? I can`t figure this out.

  Chris Matthews

  New York, Cities, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• [Marco]Rubio comes out. He represents for a short period of time the people of Florida. He has got the worst attendance record in the United States Senate, doesn`t vote. He is weak on, very weak on illegal immigration, totally in favor of amnesty.

  Donald Trump

  Florida, People, Immigration

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• McCain is the most unifying figure in the Senate. Barack Obama is so far left. Turning to her co-host, Joy Behar, an Obama supporter, she said: Do you want some more Barack Obama Kool-Aid, or what?

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck

  Obama Supporters, Joy, Want

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• I should hate to think that the Senate was as tired of me at the beginning of my service as I am of the Senate at the end.

  Charles G. Dawes

  Hate, Tired, Thinking

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• Even in the Senate, I'd put up any of the stories we did against any pablum Time or Newsweek has put out on global warming. We'd link to the other side; we'd present their arguments. They do one-sided screeds.

  Marc Morano

  Stories, Links, Sides

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