Senators Quotes - Page 2

• I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Party, Color, Achievement

  Republican National Convention Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president.

  Pat Robertson

  Thinking, Virginia, Guy

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• I'm running for senator because it's time for a change.

  John Sununu

  Change, Running, Time For A Change

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• The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers

  John Spencer

  Years, Needs, Clinton

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• Congress voted for tougher laws on corporations. So now when a corporation buys a senator, they need a receipt.

  Jay Leno

  Law, Political, Needs

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• As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

  John McCain

  Dream, Honesty, Standards

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• A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee.

  George McGovern

  White, House, Presidential

  "Hope and Change ... the Constitution" by Larry Elder, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 25, 2010.

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• I am a mom as well as a senator!

  Patty Murray

  Mom, Feminist, Wells

  Democracy Month Live Chat, www.scholastic.com. October 5, 1994.

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• Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood.

  George McGovern

  Blood, Responsible, Graves

  George Stanley McGovern (1977). “Grassroots: the autobiography of George McGovern”, Random House (NY)

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• Even before the hearings that led to confirmation of Chief Justice Roberts, senators were saying they were reserving judgment on how they would vote until they got to know him better at the hearings.

  Dana Perino

  Justice, Hearing, Vote

  "White House targets doubts on Miers nod", www.washingtontimes.com. October 11, 2005.

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• I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.

  Roy Acuff

  Two, President, Done

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• How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did that party become a party that now loses 95 percent of the black vote?

  Rand Paul

  Party, Rights, Race

  "Sen. Rand Paul Tries To Repair GOP's Image With Minorities". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. April 11, 2013.

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• The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.

  Bernie Sanders

  Majority, Climate, Lines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Senator Lugar will also travel to Libya for official meetings as a part of the president's initiative to move toward more normal relations reflecting that country's renunciation of terrorism and abandonment of its weapons of mass destruction and longer range missiles.

  Dana Perino

  Country, Moving, Mass Destruction

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• Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese prison. And now he's lecturing us about how America's gone "soft"? Really?

  Jonah Goldberg

  College, Years, America

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• Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible.

  John Ensign

  Fields, Troops

  "Raising the volume" by John F. Dickerson and Karen Tumulty, www.cnn.com. March 15, 2004.

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• I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation.

  Christopher Dodd

  War, Thinking, Virginia

  "Dodd praise for Byrd hit by GOP". www.washingtontimes.com. April 8, 2004.

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• The Senate decided they will be smoke-free. They ordained that all public areas in the Senate are now smoke-free. However, the senators themselves will still be allowed to blow smoke up each other's asses.

  Bill Maher

  Blow, Political, Election

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• That isn't how I've always felt. As a congressman, and more recently as a senator, I opposed marriage for same-sex couples. Then something happened that led me to think through my position in a much deeper way.

  Rob Portman

  Sex, Couple, Gay

  "Gay Marriage Wins Another Convert" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2013.

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• The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate.

  David C. Hardesty, Jr.

  Heart, Scary, Principles

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• Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

  Patty Murray

  United States, Computer, Senate

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• The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.

  Ann Coulter

  Rolling, Facts, Republican

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• Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.

  Tom Daschle

  Decision, Want, Process

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• So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senators to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.

  Jim DeMint

  Jobs, Cutting, Thinking

  "Sen. Jim DeMint: 'We Are Monetizing Our Debt'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. November 8, 2010.

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