Senate Quotes - page 2

When you look at February's (2011) deficit spending alone, and the fact that it was larger than what our total deficit spending was in 2007, the proposals that the Senate is sending us simply are ridiculous, because it's not even a solution. It doesn't address the amount of spending that we have in a week's time. We need to get serious. (Kristi Noem)
You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate. View quote
Mark Pryor
All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN. View quote
Chuck Grassley
It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of one's voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times a day. As election day approaches, the size of the crowds grows; they are more responsive and more interested; and one derives a certain exhilaration from that which, only a few weeks before, was intensely painful. This is one possible explanation of unlimited debate in the Senate. View quote
J. William Fulbright
The statesman who should attempt to direct people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it. View quote
Adam Smith
I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go. View quote
Gerald Ford
I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation. View quote
Gerald Ford
I should hate to think that the Senate was as tired of me at the beginning of my service as I am of the Senate at the end. View quote
Charles G. Dawes
I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate. View quote
David Remnick
I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to sing ‘Dixie' until she cries.” [in an elevator to Carol Moseley-Braun, the first African-American woman elected to the Senate]. View quote
Jesse Helms
The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President. (Andrew Card)
I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women. View quote
Anita Hill
I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time. View quote
Birch Bayh
I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate. View quote
Bob Corker
We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work. View quote
Barbara Mikulski
I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe. View quote
Barbara Mikulski
I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours. View quote
Byron Dorgan
The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president. View quote
Christine Pelosi
I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate... it's too slow for me. View quote
Chuck Robb
My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts. View quote
Don Nickles
I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill. (Don Nickles)
I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing. View quote
Ed Case
You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning. View quote
Evan Bayh
Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. View quote
John Barrasso
You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done. View quote
John Chafee