Senators Quotes - Page 11

• Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney.

  John F. Kerry

  President, United States, Bakers

  John Kerry's speech to the Democratic National Convention, www.washingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  College, Rights, Government

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• While Roberts wanted to give the impression he respected the right to privacy and the precedent of Roe vs. Wade, his answers look dangerously similar to the responses (Associate Justice) Clarence Thomas gave senators during his confirmation hearings 14 years ago.

  Nancy Keenan

  Years, Giving, Justice

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• Senator Kerry recovering very nicely after having shoulder surgery. The doctors said the senator was fully awake, lucid and joking after the surgery was done, but cautioned that that was just the drug. He went back to his boring self soon afterward.

  Jay Leno

  Doctors, Self, Drug

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• The Wisconsin senator gets up and says out loud what half of the country is thinking and talks about every day. This President broke the law and lied about it; he trashed the Constitution and hides himself in the flag.

  Russ Feingold

  Country, Thinking, Law

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• Senators don't really provide good gossip - until they do, and then it's an A1 story and they're out of a job.

  Amy Argetsinger

  Jobs, Gossip, Stories

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Every member of Congress and every Senator kind of runs their own race with their own message because they don't want to necessarily have dictated from the White House what that message should be.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Running, White, Race

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, "Senator, we ought to change the policy," then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it.

  John McCain

  Military, Thinking, Policy

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.nbcnews.com. November 16, 2010.

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• You may have noticed that Senator Obama’s supporters have been saying some pretty nasty things about Western Pennsylvania lately. And you know, I couldn’t agree with them more.

  John McCain

  Pennsylvania, May, Nasty

  "McCain Fights to Keep Crucial Blue State in Play" by • Elisabeth Bumiller and Jeff Zeleny, www.nytimes.com. October 21, 2008.

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• There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of Democratic mythology, ghostwritten for an ambitious young Massachusetts Senator who never did a thing for himself if he could pay to have it done by others.

  L. Neil Smith

  Ambitious, Selfless, Massachusetts

  "Pursuing Invariably the Same Object". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. April 18, 2010.

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• I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives by liberals. Liberals are shockingly quick to demean and dismiss brilliant black people like Rice, Carson, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Professor Walter E. Williams and economist Thomas Sowell because they don't fit into the role they have carved out for a black person in America. Black Americans must be obedient liberals on all things or risk being called a race traitor or an Uncle Tom.

  Juan Williams

  Education, Uncles, America

  "Rutgers rage against Rice -- why do liberals have so much hate for black conservatives?" by Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. March 9, 2014.

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• Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties?

  Brad Meltzer

  Lust, Pockets, Underwear

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• I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the next Supreme Court seat will probably go to a Latino. This isn't always because they object to sharing the spoils, by the way; it just reminds us that the melting pot may not be working, and we haven't yet achieved the ambiguous national dream of becoming a nation of indistinguishable beige atheists.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Dream, Atheist, Men

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• What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?

  Kojo Annan

  Father, Substance, World

  "Annan's son: Probe 'a witchhunt'" by Jeff Koinange, Phil Hirschkorn, www.cnn.com. December 13, 2004.

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• My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.

  Joe Kyrillos

  Debt, Opponents, Economic

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• I am who I am. In politics when you treat people well and they know you're honest, straight and sincere, I think it's an advantage. Just because somebody comes from a hard-boiled political culture doesn't make him a good U.S. senator.

  Joe Kyrillos

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

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• It is with tremendous excitement and pride that EMILY's List endorses Senator Hillary Clinton for president.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Pride, President, Lists

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• On the national stage and in the neighborhoods of New York, Senator Hillary Clinton has repeatedly put her expertise and power behind solutions that make the lives of the American people safer and more prosperous.

  Ellen Malcolm

  New York, People, Clinton

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• Senate races are different from House races, in the sense that they are more candidate-driven. The higher the office - that is, I mean, governor, senator, president - the more important the candidate.

  Judy Woodruff

  Mean, Race, Office

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• It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.

  John McCain

  Political, Negative, Campaigns

  John McCain at The Third Presidential Candidates Debate at Hofstra University at Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 2008.

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• Senator Obama voted against Justice Breyer and Justice Roberts on the grounds that they didn't meet his ideological standards. That's not the way we should judge these nominees. Elections have consequences.

  John McCain

  Justice, Judging, Way

  John McCain at The Third Presidential Candidates Debate at Hofstra University at Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 2008.

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• I've got the best job in the world being a senator from the United States, a senator from South Carolina in the United States Senate, representing South Carolina in the United States Senate is a dream job for me, but the world is literally falling apart. And we can't get anything done here at home. So that drives my thinking more than anything else.

  Lindsey Graham

  Dream, Jobs, Fall

  "What's at stake for US as Saudi-led airstrikes pound Yemen?". "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2015.

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• I've campaigned many, many times together with Senator McCain. He's campaigned for me; I've campaigned for him, good friend.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Good Friend, Together, Mccain

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2007.

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• No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real. And it comes from the very nature of what judges do.

  Orrin Hatch

  Real, Judging, May

  "Day One of the Roberts Hearings". Orrin Hatch's speech at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. September 12, 2005.

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• In the middle of the cavernous cargo hold was a simple, aluminum coffin with a small American flag draped over it. We were bringing another American soldier, just killed, home to his family and final resting place. The starkness of his coffin in the center of the hold, the silence except for the din of the engines, was a real time cold reminder of the consequences of decisions for which we Senators share responsibility.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Responsibility, Home

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