Senators Quotes - Page 9

• Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.

  Conan O'Brien

  Book, Texas, Worry

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• California's 74-year-old Senator Barbara Boxer announced she will not run for re-election in 2016. When I saw the headline '74-Year-Old Boxer,' I assumed they were making another 'Rocky' movie.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Years, California

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• Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced he is running for president. Ted Cruz was born in Canada, his father fled to the United States from Cuba, and yet Ted Cruz is against immigration. Isn't that odd?

  David Letterman

  Running, Father, Texas

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• People are being really picky about the upcoming election. I read that Americans do not want the next president to be a first-term senator, be over 65, or have a former president in the family. Then the Secret Service said, 'Hey, whoever slips through slips through. No promises.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  People, Being Real, Promise

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• Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is expected to announce tomorrow that he is running for president, making him Hillary Clinton's only Democratic challenger so far. Or as Hillary put it, 'Oooo, appetizers!'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, President, Vermont

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• Arizona Senator John McCain announced that he plans on running for a sixth term because he is concerned about the nation's security. He plans to help just like any other 80-year-old: by sitting on his porch with a police scanner.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, Years, Police

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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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• 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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• That's what I like about you, senator, you're kicking it old-school.

  Russ Feingold

  School, Kicking It, Old School

  Russ Feingold (2012). “While America Sleeps: A Wake-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era”, p.175, Broadway Books

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• Senator Rand Paul reflected on Mitt Romney's potential 2016 campaign and said, 'It's sort of what Einstein said, that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.' When someone told him Einstein didn't actually say that, he said, 'In the words of Gandhi, 'My bad.''

  Jimmy Fallon

  Insanity, Different, Campaigns

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• I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Rhode Island, Islands, Presidential

  Lincoln Chafee (2010). “Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President”, p.9, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• Let's cause some senators distress.

  Peggy Noonan

  Causes, Distress

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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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• I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.

  Juan Cole

  Believe, Law, Iraq

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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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• [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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