Senators Quotes - Page 8

• Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, we hadn't talked.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  New Year, Party, Years

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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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• 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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• That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Too Much, Congress

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.56, Rowman & Littlefield

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• [Senator]Torricelli [D-NJ] will leave public office with just the clothes on his back, a Rolex watch and other assorted jewelry, a TV set, a couple of racks of Italian suits, some Jets tickets, a grandfather clock and three paper sacks filled with small, unmarked bills.

  Ann Coulter

  Couple, Italian, Clothes

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• [Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Politics, Clinton, Charm

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• [Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.

  William Safire

  Class, Politics, Resentment

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• Democratic candidate John Kerry on Tuesday chose fellow Senator John Edwards to be his running mate. Asked about Edwards' lack of foreign policy experience, Kerry revealed his new campaign slogan, 'I Promise Not to Die.'

  Dennis Miller

  Running, Tuesday, Promise

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• Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.

  Thomas Sowell

  Politics, Causes, Vote

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• Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Lying, Men, Politics

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• He was my favorite senator... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.

  Robert Novak

  I Love Him, My Favorite, Made

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• A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.

  Russell Baker

  Father, Writing, Exercise

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• Let's cause some senators distress.

  Peggy Noonan

  Causes, Distress

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• I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America.

  Max Baucus

  Thinking, America, Want

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• Dozens of members of Congress will be retiring next month, and some should be missed. But there is only one Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma senator the Christian Science Monitor has dubbed 'a rabble-rousing statesman.'

  John Fund

  Christian, Oklahoma, Dozen

  "Coburn, a True Statesman, Steps Down" by John Fund, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 29, 2014.

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• Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned him the label "Senator Sleaze." D'Amato explained their reluctance as he defended his own behavior. "There but for the grace of God go most of my colleagues," he said.

  William Greider

  New York, Punishment, Grace

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

  Eleanor Clift

  President, Looks, Former

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• Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.

  John Cornyn

  Running, Justice, Political

  "Senators Criticize NARAL Ad on Roberts". www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2005.

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• Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?

  Walt Disney

  Kings, Governors, Disneyland

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• In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Men, Overcoming

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• Funny thing about being a U.S. senator, the only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement. They just figure that a man that old got nobody to blame but himself if he gets caught in there.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Years, Law

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• The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Oregon, Mad, Historic

  Ursula K Le Guin (2014). “The Lathe of Heaven”, p.144, Diversion Books

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• Look, we live in a celebrity culture and sometimes you get caught in the wave and the buzz and a lot of it's flattering but, you know, one of the things that I try to remind people of is, is that I was in politics as a state senator operating in obscurity for many years. Before that I was a community organizer working in low income communities in Chicago and nobody knew my name then. And so, having involved myself in public service for a pretty long time without getting too much attention, hopefully I can keep some of the attention that I'm getting now in perspective.

  Barack Obama

  Names, Years, Perspective

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• People ask me, "What are you going to do to develop jobs in your state?" Well, that's not my job as a US senator to bring industry to the state. That's the lieutenant governor's job, that's your state senators' and assemblymen's job. That's your secretary of state's job, to make a climate in the state that says, 'Y'all come.'

  Sharron Angle

  Jobs, People, Climate

  "Angle: Unemployed are 'Spoiled'; It's not my job to fight for Nevadans' jobs". Sharron Angle's campaign appearance, www.youtube.com. May 14, 2010.

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• The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.

  Charles Sumner

  Believe, Book, Mean

  Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.1564, Library of Alexandria

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