Senate Quotes - Page 15

• We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.

  William Howard Taft

  Change, People, Mind

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• The thing I'd want people to say about me is that, in some way, I helped bring the Senate and the Congress back to what it used to be, the people's branch of government, doing things that made a difference in people's lives. I have devoted my life to government.

  Charles Schumer

  Government, Differences, People

  Source: www.questia.com

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• I think there were two messages in last year's election. One is pretty obvious. People were mad as hell at the president [Barack Obama] - and wanted to send a message. We all got that. Our new members were also hearing, and I was hearing as well, that people didn't like the fact that the Congress was dysfunctional. Now they may have been confused about where the dysfunctionality was cause the president kept pointing to the House. Factually, that's not accurate. The dysfunction was in the Senate.

  Mitch McConnell

  Confused, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

  Robert Caro

  Majority Leader, United States, Made

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• Finally, in the Mississippi state Senate, earmarks are often hidden in bond bills, which I have voted against many times, because our bonded indebtedness is too high and we simply can't afford it. For example, building museums in the middle of a recession makes little sense.

  Chris McDaniel

  Museums, Littles, Bills

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• The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

  Ralph Neas

  Hype, Decision, President

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• You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life.

  John Heilemann

  Running, Lonely, Home

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• The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.

  Barbra Streisand

  Health, Winning, Choices

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• I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great, essential right. I do not think the whole legislative authority have this power. The exercise of the power must be consistent with the object of the delegation.

  James Madison

  Exercise, Thinking, President

  James Madison (1836). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution”, p.514

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• Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction

  Jeff Miller

  Simple, Law, Special

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• I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.

  Dan Quayle

  House, Support, Effort

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• We didn't make much progress on the country's agenda. And in my view it's because the Senate basically hadn't done much of anything, with a couple of exceptions, for the last four years [of Barack Obama's presidency]. And that's going to change.

  Mitch McConnell

  Country, Couple, Views

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• Hillary Clinton's opponent in the U.S. Senate race, the Republican she's going to be running against, has been married three times, had an affair with his chief of staff, had two kids with her while still married to his second wife. This is the first time in history that a Clinton is the 'family values' candidate.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Kids, Two

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• I think [Steve Scalise] is a good man I am not going to vote in that regard because I believe Israel controls the Senate they control the House of Representatives they control the media .

  David Duke

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• That's true that Sen. Robert Bird was in the Klan and a lot of people were friends of Robert Byrd in the U.S. Senate, Democrats and Republicans.

  David Duke

  People, Bird, Republican

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• The Supreme Court consistently favors organized money and the political privileges of the corporate class. We have a Senate that is more responsive to affluent constituents than to middle-class constituents, while the opinions of constituents in the bottom third of income distribution have no apparent effect at all on the Senate's roll call votes.

  Bill Moyers

  Class, Political, Favors

  Source: progressive.org

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• It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones 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.

  J. William Fulbright

  Voice, Speech, Exhilaration

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• When I'm in the U.S. Senate, I will fiercely oppose the president's attack on Kentucky's coal industry, because protecting our jobs will be my No. 1 priority.

  Alison Lundergan Grimes

  Jobs, Kentucky, Priorities

  "With carbon limits, Obama creates drama for Democrats" By Leigh Ann Caldwell, www.cnn.com. June 3, 2014.

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• The Senate has sent President Obama a spending bill that gives the government enough money to keep going for two weeks. Our Congress has the financial planning skills of a college sophomore.

  Conan O'Brien

  College, Government, Skills

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• Members of the Senate are considering a tax on cosmetic surgery. When they brought it up, you should have seen the look that Nancy Pelosi's face tried to make.

  Conan O'Brien

  Should Have, Looks, Cosmetics

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• Yesterday Jerry Springer bowed out of the Ohio Senate race. He said, 'If I can't run the most embarrassing campaign in America, then I'm out of here.'

  Craig Kilborn

  Running, Race, Ohio

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• A lot of tight Senate races out there. Let's hit those chips with another dash of salsa, Ed Bradley.

  Dan Rather

  Race, Salsa, Chips

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• It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed it won t be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.

  George McGovern

  Military, War, Fighting

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• The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.

  Chuck Grassley

  Nuts, Political, United States

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• What's more important than the media, there's this thing called ObamaCare, which was President Obama's signature domestic achievement. It won Republicans the House in 2014 - 2010. It won Republicans the Senate in 2014.

  William Kristol

  Media, Obamacare, House

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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