Senate Quotes - Page 17

• I find it disturbing that no member of the Senate Armed Services Committee is willing to acknowledge that record of failure and to ask our next secretary of defense what he proposes to do to amend that sorry record.

  James Mattis

  Sorry, Defense, Records

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• For Democrats who are feeling completely discouraged, I've been trying to remind them, everybody remembers my Boston speech in 2004. They may not remember me showing up here in 2005 when John Kerry had lost a close election, Tom Daschle, the leader of the Senate, had been beaten in an upset. Ken Salazar and I were the only two Democrats that won nationally. Republicans controlled the Senate and the House, and two years later, Democrats were winning back Congress, and four years later I was President of the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Winning, Boston, Years

  "President Obama’s first press conference of the Trump era, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. November 14, 2016.

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• There's a statement from several members of the Senate, both Democrats and Republicans, including the Democratic leader, Charles Schumer; John McCain, the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee; and Lindsey Graham, also a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. They write that recent reports of Russian interference in our elections should alarm every American. They say Democrats and Republicans must work together to investigate this.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Writing, Leader, Working Together

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Whoever is standing up telling the white man that his position is unjust and that the black people should not have to wait for any Supreme Court, Congress or Senate to legislate, or even the president to issue any kind of - of a proclamation to better the condition of our people, if a N - if he - if a, if a Negro leader is standing up, making that point clear, then he's all right with us.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Issues

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• The only tool the Democrats have is in the Senate, and it's the filibuster.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Tools, Filibuster, Democrat

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Four states where [Democrats] have the governorship and both houses of the legislature. That's it. They have lost seats. They are not gonna win the House and Senate back any time soon. They don't have a prayer. Even if the Republicans implode, the numbers just work against them. They got too many seats that they have to defend.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Prayer, Winning, Numbers

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Then the actual count comes in and not only does that not happen, [Donald] Trump wins, Hillary [Clinton] loses, they don't get anywhere near the House. They've lost the Senate. They've lost 1,200 seats in the last three elections. They don't have a national party, just one election. And in this next bite, Kellyanne Conway is pointing this out to them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Winning, House

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Hillary [Clinton] wins in a landslide, [Donald] Trump has no coattails, the Democrats are gonna win the Senate, they're close to winning the House back, they're gonna keep the White House for three terms. It's gonna be nirvana.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, White, House

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I am saying there are women in the Senate, there are women in governorships, there are women in statewide office, there are women in the House, and I do think we can't ignore the fact that we have had the first woman ever win a nomination of a major party and the first woman ever winning the popular vote. So I think the table is set for a woman in the near future. I really do.

  Barbara Boxer

  Party, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Many Democrats are in a reflective mood . They lost the White House this year [2016], which would not matter as much as it does, except they also failed to take back the Senate, remain out of power in the House and are out of power in most states.

  Steve Inskeep

  Years, White, House

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When I was in the Senate, I had eight great years working with the community on major issues, trying to deal with problems that people brought to my attention. That's certainly what I intend to do as president. I think that is what President Obama has done.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Eight, Years

  "This Hillary Clinton interview is my favorite of the entire 2016 election". "The Breakfast Club", www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2016.

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• If Trump wins, the only thing blocking complete implementation of the programs of Trump, Paul Ryan, the Koch brothers, etc., is the Senate filibuster by the Democrats.

  Allan Nairn

  Brother, Block, Winning

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Right now, what my job is - pardon me? Those are just words. Right now, what my - my job is right now going beyond media conflicts and words is to say that Donald Trump, among other things, told the American people he would not cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and right now Republicans in the House and Senate are doing just that.

  John Lewis

  Jobs, Cutting, Media

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Minnesota is very important. You're going to have a competitive race for the Senate, a competitive governor's race, you have an open seat in the 6th (Congressional) District, a state legislature that is closely divided, and a state that was very competitive in 2000 and 2004 and is likely to be again in 2008.

  Ken Mehlman

  Race, Competition, Important

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• Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.

  Calvin Jillson

  Texas, Helping, Election

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• It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and the Senate, or the caucus of the party which happens to be in the majority, the absolute dictator of the financial and business affairs of this country. This scheme surpasses all the centralism and all the Caesarism that were ever charged upon the Republican party in the wildest days of the war or in the events growing out of the war.

  James A. Garfield

  Country, War, Party

  "Financial Catechism and History of the Financial Legislation of the United States from 1862-1896". Book by S. M. Brice, Cuthbert Vincent, 1882.

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• It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get caught, we will be punished. But that doesn't make us good people; it only makes us subdued. Just think about the Congress and Senate and even the president. The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.

  Donald Miller

  Father, Men, Thinking

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.18, Thomas Nelson

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• The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and on the value of the dollar in exchange markets. The Nation can ill afford to allow such a result. The risks, the cost, the disruptions, and the incalculable damage lead me to but one conclusion: the Senate must pass this legislation before the Congress adjourns.

  Ronald Reagan

  Risk, Damage, Serious

  Letter to Majority Leader Howard Baker, November 16, 1983.

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• You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each other and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch their hats. This may do for young men with whom passion is enjoyment. But it is afflicting to peaceable minds. Tranquility is the old man's milk.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Passion, Men, Political

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• The two-thirds rule of the Senate, which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time to come. Like monogamy, it is not completely satisfactory, but, like monogamy, it has won general if somewhat grudging acquiescence.

  Thomas A. Bailey

  Two, Long, Doubt

  "A Diplomatic History of the American People". Book by Thomas A. Bailey, 7th ed., p. 17, 1940.

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• [In ancient Rome,] why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew? Why did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon? It's the same thing with Germany and Hitler.

  George Lucas

  Kings, Government, Rome

  "'Sith' Invites Bush Comparisons" by Ellen Crean, www.cbsnews.com. May 16, 2005.

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• At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order.

  Augustus

  Mean, Army, Order

  "The Deeds of the Divine Augustus". Book by Augustus, 1924.

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• If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.

  Patty Murray

  White, House, Balance

  "Bush, Clinton in campaign blitz", www.cnn.com. November 2, 2002.

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• If we had known we were going to win control of the Senate, we'd have run better candidates.

  Bob Dole

  Running, Winning, Candidates

  Attributed to Bob Dole by Charlie Cook, "The Democrats' Wild Ride," Cook Political Report, June 12, 2010.

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• Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

  Alexander Pope

  Judging, Gold, And Love

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.442

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