Senators Quotes - Page 24

• Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President.

  Donald Trump

  Powerful, Men, President

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We do need our defense capabilities. It is a fact that the cuts we are facing today and the cuts that Senator [Ted] Cruz would have supported would leave us with an even smaller Air Force and a smaller Navy than the one we are going to be left with.

  Marco Rubio

  Cutting, Air, Navy

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• To wage war, we need a commander in chief who has made tough calls in tough times and stood up to be held accountable over and over, not first-term senators who've never made an executive decision in their life.

  Carly Fiorina

  War, Tough Times, Decision

  Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• Senator [Ted] Cruz is not qualified to be president because he doesn't have the right temperament and acted like a maniac when he arrived in the Senate.

  Donald Trump

  President, Temperament, Qualified

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• There are now reports that President Obama will name Massachusetts Senator John Kerry to be the next secretary of defense. Apparently this is part of America's new defense strategy to bore our enemies to death.

  Jay Leno

  Names, America, Enemy

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• The best that can be said for those like Senators Nelson and Landrieu is that they held out until Obama and Reid met their price. By now, I can't even recall what it took to make Joe Lieberman say 'Uncle!' But it just goes to prove that when politicians like these three refer to themselves as moderate Democrats, we should recognize that it's similar to the distinction made in a related field when call girls insist they're not streetwalkers. It's the same profession; only the prices differ.

  Burt Prelutsky

  Girl, Uncles, Three

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• The longest-serving Republican Senator, Alaska's Ted Stevens, found guilty just a few hours ago on all charges in his corruption trial. Do you know this story? He failed to report he had some work done on his house. Yeah, here's the bad part. You know who did the work? Joe the plumber. Unlicensed.

  Jay Leno

  Alaska, House, Done

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• Teachers don't need as much as $140,000 a year, ... But, perhaps some senators don't need $140,000 a year either.

  John McCain

  Teacher, Years, Needs

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• Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But my friends, eloquence is no substitute for a record - not in these tough times for America. In the Senate he has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party.

  Joe Lieberman

  Country, Powerful, Party

  "The Lieberman Conundrum". voices.washingtonpost.com. November 13, 2008.

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• Maybe I'm too close to the two Democrats to be against either one. I went to law school with Barack Obama and worked in the Clinton White House, so I have connections and allegiances to both candidates. [...] But I cannot remain silent any longer while my own senator destroys the Democratic Party, and her own reputation, in a desperate and degrading effort to appeal to the lowest common denominator. It's time for Senator Clinton to act like a leader that I know she can be. Hillary Clinton not only needs to defend Barack Obama, she needs to apologize to him.

  Keith Boykin

  Party, School, White

  "Clinton Owes Obama An Apology" by Keith Boykin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2008.

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• My teenage children watched Senator Clinton on the Today Show, mouths agape. They attended our local caucus with me and saw hundreds of our friends and neighbors gathered in the elementary school gym on that Sunday afternoon, despite an ugly Maine snowstorm. They listened to the thoughtful searching debates and saw us cast our votes. How could anyone suggest we didn't know exactly what we were doing? 'What's the point of electing someone who doesn't believe in the American people?' they asked. 'If she wants to ignore us now when she's only a candidate, what will she do as the President?'

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Teenage, Children, Believe

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• And I want every one of you, every one of us, 100 senators to look in that camera, and you tell your people back home what you think. Don't hide anymore; none of us. That is the essence of our responsibility. And if we're not willing to do it, we're not worthy to be seated right here. We fail our country. If we don't debate this, if we don't debate this, we are not worthy of our country. We fail our country.

  Chuck Hagel

  Country, Home, Responsibility

  "The Battle for Iraq; Ghosts From the Past". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. January 25, 2007.

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• In the very next election, the American people elected 63 new Republicans to the House of Representatives - the largest sweep of Congress for any party since 1948. Even liberal Massachusetts elected a Republican senator solely because of his vow to vote against Obamacare.

  Ann Coulter

  Party, Obamacare, People

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• What we were doing was trying to simply get the information we need once we learned from our vendor after the software glitch occurred that there had been a breach by the Sanders campaign staff, which I was glad to see senator [Bernie] Sanders acknowledge that was wrong and apologize for.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Trying, Information, Glitches

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The contrast, between the two parties is now so strong that I think senator [Bernie ]Sanders has summed it up himself several times. He has said on her worst day, whatever that means, Hillary Clinton is infinitely better than any Republican.

  Joe Conason

  Strong, Party, Mean

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

  Hal Holbrook

  Class, America, Criminals

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• An information operations team was sent to Afghanistan to conduct various psychological operations on the Afghans and Taliban. The team was then asked not to focus on the Taliban but on manipulating senators into giving more funds and troops [to the war].

  Michael Hastings

  War, Team, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The way the Pentagon and its defenders have pushed back against this story is to say: "They weren't doing psychological operations, they were doing information operations and public affairs. They were just helping us spin senators like we normally do."

  Michael Hastings

  Stories, Information, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not going to get establishment support. I'm not going to get the support of the governors and the senators, with few exceptions, and many of the major organizations.

  Bernie Sanders

  Organization, Support, Establishment

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm very proud and grateful to have the support of so many elected Vermonters and former officials. Two former governors, the current governor, the current other senator. I really appreciate that.And I think it's because they've worked with me, they've seen what I do. They know what kind of a colleague I am. They want me as their partner in the White House. And that's exactly what I will do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Grateful, Thinking, Two

  "Sanders-Clinton debate transcript: Annotating what they say". www.washingtonpost.com. February 4, 2016.

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• The real con artist is Senator Marco Rubio who was elected in Florida and who has the worst voting record in the United States Senate. He doesn't go to vote. He's absent.

  Donald Trump

  Real, Artist, Florida

  Transcript of the Republican Presidential Debate in Detroit, www.nytimes.com. March 4, 2016.

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• Making college affordable is a really important goal, and my plan will work better than Senator [Bernie] Sanders' plan by everybody who has looked at it.

  Hillary Clinton

  College, Goal, Important

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The debate was a chance for senator [Bernie] Sanders to have a game-changing moment to recapture the news cycle and build momentum going into 2016 and he took his best shot at having a moment.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Games, Momentum, News

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I was somewhat confused when senator [Bernie] Sanders said, well, you know, Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign, they`re part of the establishment.

  Hillary Clinton

  Confused, Rights, Campaigns

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness....Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?

  Joseph N. Welch

  War, Thinking, Done

  Statements to Joseph McCarthy on the 30th day of the Army - McCarthy hearings, June 9, 1954.

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