Senate Quotes - Page 16

• Just as I went into politics because Joe died, if anything happened to me tomorrow, my brother Bobby would run for my seat in the Senate. And if Bobby died, Teddy would take over for him.

  John F. Kennedy

  Running, Brother, Presidential

  "The Remarkable Kennedys". Book by Joe McCarthy, p. 114, 1960.

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• The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Hate, Character, Presidential

  1950 'Declaration of Conscience' address to the Senate,1 Jun, denouncing accusations by Senator Joseph R McCarthy.

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• The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they created the Senate to fulfill that high and vitally important duty.

  Elihu Root

  Political, Important, Constitution

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• 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.

  Anita Hill

  Reality, Men, Thinking

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• The national media will talk about national problems because it's something that everyone in all 50 states can understand, but the reality is these are minor factors. These are local races. ... The issues tend to be less ideological than for Senate races or races for president. ... It's about potholes and streetlights.

  Larry Sabato

  Reality, Race, Media

  "Stakes Are High in N.J., Va. Governor Races". www.foxnews.com. October 23, 2005.

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• Senator Allen has long been a leader on competitiveness issues in the Senate and as governor of Virginia. His announcement of the Competitiveness Caucus comes as great news to the nation's manufacturers. We support every item on this agenda and will work with Senator Allen and others to make it a reality. The time has come for Congress to recognize the vital role manufacturing plays in American life and do what it can to strengthen our ability to compete in the global marketplace.

  John Engler

  Reality, Virginia, Play

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• It's nonsense to say that it's not in the bill. The reality is that the bill they will have passed to the Senate will have this language in it.

  David Keating

  Reality, Bills, Language

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• I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed a note informing me of the sudden death of Senator Dwight morrow. He had proved a great pillar of strength in the senate and his death was a great loss to the country and to me. I left the ballpark with the chant of the crowd ringing in my ears, 'We Want Beer!'

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Baseball, Loss

  Herbert Hoover, (2013). “The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover - The Great Depression, 1929-1941”, p.90, Read Books Ltd

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• The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs.

  Phil Donahue

  Morning, Fun, Sunday

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• Electric service providers in Missouri have warned that the EPA's so-called Clean Power Plan will raise energy costs for Missourians, reduce jobs, and hurt our state's economic competitiveness. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I've fought hard to ensure provisions that would defund this harmful power grab were included in the final appropriations bill. I also support legislation to block this harmful rule and protect workers and families from the damaging effects of the Obama Administration's executive overreach and costly energy regulations.

  Roy Blunt

  Hurt, Jobs, Block

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think [Donald Trump] s got the votes for [tax reform]. I think he's definitely has the Republican votes for it, in House and Senate, and I think he probably has maybe 20 percent of the Democratic vote for it. So he could get it done with a bipartisan majority.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Thinking, House, Majority

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Over my 24 years in the Senate, Jim, I've never voted against anyone because of their substantive views.

  Christopher Dodd

  Views, Years

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• Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!

  Patty Murray

  Anger, School, Kids

  Live Chat, www.scholastic.com. October 5, 1994.

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• A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption. Should Republicans succeed in obstructing the Senate from doing its job, it would further lower Congress’s generic favorability rating among the American people. By sabotaging the reputation of an institution of government, the party that is programmatically against government would come out the relative winner.

  Mike Lofgren

  Jobs, Couple, Party

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• But listening to him [Barack Obama] speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state Senate.

  Sarah Palin

  Men, Law, Two

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• Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Character, Self, Criticism

  Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950

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• FBI laboratory scientists said Sunday they have determined that the anthrax mailed to Senate offices last fall was fresh. They say it's only two years old. If the stuff is two years old and it's still fresh, it's not anthrax, it's Velveeta.

  Argus Hamilton

  Fall, Sunday, Years

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• The Concord Coalition in Virginia complained about pork projects and wasteful spending in the federal budget. Consider the Senate chaplain's salary. As occupations go, only mind readers in Los Angeles have fewer things to do all day.

  Argus Hamilton

  Virginia, Mind, Pork

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• Republicans are taking the possibility of [Donald] Trump as nominee seriously enough that the committee that oversees next year's Senate races laid out a confidential seven-page blueprint for candidates on how to run with Trump at the top of the ticket.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Running, Race, Years

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It's great to be in a room full of young people...The average age of the Senate, I think, is death.

  Aaron Schock

  Thinking, Average, People

  "The week in one-liners" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. April 8, 2011.

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• CIA Director George Tenet briefed a Senate panel ... about the current situation in Iraq. He described how cash was being stolen and women were being assaulted with impunity. Senators love to attend these continuing education seminars.

  Argus Hamilton

  Iraq, Directors, Cash

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• Women are beginning to feel that they are not fairly represented. As we say, 2% may be fine for fat in milk, but not for the United States Senate.

  Dianne Feinstein

  United States, May, Milk

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• It is abundantly clear that a total review of all intelligence programs is necessary so that members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are fully informed as to what is actually being carried out by the intelligence community.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Nsa, Community, Program

  "NSA: Dianne Feinstein breaks ranks to oppose US spying on allies" by Paul Lewis, Spencer Ackerman, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2013.

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• This country is never going to move forward unless we end Republican rule in the House and Senate.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Moving, House

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• One strategy that the tea party smartly embraced was one of being almost entirely defensive. They consciously decided not to figure out which of their really abominable conservative policy priorities to prioritize. Instead, anything that came out of the Obama White House they were against. What they recognized is that when you've lost the White House and the House of Representatives and the Senate, you're not setting the agenda anymore. We progressives find ourselves in a similar situation now.

  Ezra G. Levin

  Party, White, House

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