Senate Quotes - Page 31

• The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is...I want to win a Nobel Peace prize.

  Marco Rubio

  Running, Winning, Simple

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• The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.

  Al Gore

  House, Perception, Climate

  "Al Gore: 'The message still has to be about the reality we're facing'". Interview with Brad Plumer, www.washingtonpost.com. September 12, 2011.

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• I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Differences, House, Want

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• Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'

  Barack Obama

  People, House, President

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• The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.

  Christine Pelosi

  Husband, Pregnancy, Good Luck

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• Listen, we all have to agree that there is too much litigation going on in this world. But every year it seems to multiply tenfold. Why can't we stop it? Well, it's because the lawmakers in Congress and the Senate are almost all lawyers, too!

  James Belushi

  Years, World, Too Much

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• I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.

  Bob Corker

  Regulation, Financial, Difficult

  "Corker: GOP erred on financial reform" by Victoria Mcgrane, www.politico.com. March 24, 2010.

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• I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.

  Ed Case

  Country, Campaigns, Hawaii

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• The bill then says if the Senate does not act, then H.R. 1 (the House-passed bill that cuts $61 billion) will be the law of the land. In addition to that, it says that if all else fails, and the Senate brings about a shutdown, then members should not get their pay.

  Eric Cantor

  Cutting, Law, Land

  "House Republicans plan symbolic bill to pressure Senate on shutdown" by Felicia Sonmez, www.washingtonpost.com. March 30, 2011.

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• Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.

  Howie Carr

  Jobs, Real, Should Have

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• Scott Brown may be the last Republican to win a statewide fight in Massachusetts for a very long time. He caught the machine flat-footed in January 2010 when he out-hustled Martha Coakley and stole the Senate seat Ted Kennedy held all those years. And since then, the Democrats haven't lost a single statewide fight.

  Howie Carr

  Fighting, Winning, Years

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• The Patriotic Millionaires campaign, pulled together quickly by the Agenda Project in New York City, just happens to appear on the same day as a new study from the Center for Responsive Politics revealing that half of the members of the House and the Senate are millionaires.

  Joe Conason

  New York, Patriotic, Cities

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• You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.

  John Chafee

  House, Needs, Done

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• Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.

  Robert Caro

  Political, Genius, Someday

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• We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

  Steve Chabot

  Oil, House, Energy

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• Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.

  Mark Dayton

  Support, Income, Minimum Wage

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• I loved being in the Senate. That was a wonderful experience.

  John Ensign

  Wonderful, Wonderful Experience

  "From senators to animals: Lawmaker who fell from grace now working as a vet" By Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. February 21, 2012.

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• President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

  Chuck Grassley

  Decision, Advice, President

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• I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Thinking, Environmental, Records

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• The presidents against Congress, the Senate is against the House, people are against politicians, and I'm against cats in the house.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Cat, People, House

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• I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  New York, Winning, Giving

  "Ford's Bluff Is Called; He Won't Challenge Gillibrand In N.Y." by Ken Rudin, www.npr.org. March 2, 2010.

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• We want a Republican majority in the house and the senate, there's no question.

  Kellyanne Conway

  House, Majority, Want

  "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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• When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'

  Mitt Romney

  Beautiful, Mom, Dad

  "Election Guide: Romney Rhetoric". Interview with Jason Williams, www.cityweekly.net. October 31, 2012.

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• After all, the U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.

  Marco Rubio

  Speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• Let me start by saying that I do not enjoy nor relish the partisan role of attack dog. I never found any fun in that. I don't think it's constructive. I don't intend to become that here in the Senate.

  Marco Rubio

  Dog, Fun, Thinking

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