Senate Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• 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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• Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

  Desi Arnaz

  Hearing, Witch, Joe Mccarthy

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Winning, Branches, Executive Branch

  Lincoln Chafee (2010). “Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President”, p.2, Macmillan

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• The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

  Jeff Flake

  Country, United States, Debate

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• All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.

  Virgil Goode

  House, Pay, Social

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• Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn't receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators - a majority - voted in favor of the bill. Despite President Obama's actively lobbying against the bill, we still won the support of 11 Democrats.

  John Hoeven

  Strong, Support, President

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• Well, we have the leverage in the sense that we supply all the wherewithal...or a major part of the wherewithal to finance or to pay for everything Israel does. We don't have any leverage in the sense that Israel controls the Senate. The Senate is at least...a subservient, in my opinion, much too much. We should be more concerned about the United States' interest, rather than doing the bidding of Israel. This is a most unusual development.

  J. William Fulbright

  Israel, United States, Doe

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