Senate Quotes - Page 19

• Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Power, Opinion, Authority

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• I mean, when's the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running? I mean, he will have been a senator longer by the time he's inaugurated, but essentially once you start running for president full time you don't have time to do much else.

  William J. Clinton

  Running, Mean, Years

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• It's been just a year since the RNC committed to revamp the way they help our candidates with its 'Growth and Opportunity Project,' and already there are signs of improvement. From new leadership and initiatives in the digital arena, to improving the GOP ground game (as we just saw with David Jolly's victory in FL-13), to the historic decision to restructure the primary calendar and primary debates, the RNC's steps will help keep the House and to take the Senate in 2014, win the White House in 2016, and build for the future. Looking forward to more progress in the months ahead.

  Karl Rove

  Winning, Opportunity, Years

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• Make sure your son and daughter understands they don't get to decide when or where they go to war. It is rich, predominantly white men in the House and Senate that have the power to send children of other parents - but not their own children - off to die [and] be injured in a senseless war.

  Tomas Young

  Daughter, Children, Pain

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• The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.

  Hillary Clinton

  Issues, Trying, Building

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• Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

  Robert Caro

  Party, Two, Years

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• I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Intrigued

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• I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate; I am an immigrant; I am a Buddhist. When I said this at one of my gatherings, they said, 'Yes, but are you gay?' and I said, 'Nobody's perfect.'

  Mazie Hirono

  Buddhist, Gay, Government

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• I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, Pennsylvania, Pressure

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• If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration.

  John Dingell

  War, Thinking, House

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• What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

  Jim DeMint

  Common, Republican, Lowest

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• Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a family member. That would really make everyone stop and go, 'Ohhh-kaaay.'

  Will Ferrell

  War, House, Troops

  "Will Ferrell: The King of Comedy Opens Up" with Holly Millea, www.elle.com. July 18, 2012.

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• Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.

  Carly Fiorina

  Moving, California, Office

  "RCP Newsmaker Interview With Carly Fiorina". RealClearPolitics Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 5, 2010.

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• In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security, he was very often in the minority.

  Dick Cheney

  Years, United States, Minorities

  Dick Cheney's Remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. March 17, 2004.

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• Republicans think that [Ted] Cruz would be like Barry Goldwater. He'd lose in a landslide and pull the party down with him. They'd lose Senate and House seats.

  Mara Liasson

  Party, Thinking, House

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• I don't trust American intelligence. You look at the torture report from the Senate: People inside the CIA are saying that it doesn't work, and we're getting the information not from torture, but simply from questioning people.

  Robert Baer

  People, Looks, Information

  "Torture, Drones, and Hollywood: A Former CIA Operative Talks". Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. December 23, 2014.

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• There is no doubt in my mind that Rudy Giuliani in the Senate will be a leader for the people of New York but also for the people of Arizona and the people all over this country.

  John McCain

  Country, New York, People

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• As you know, John McCain is an older, white-haired man who has been in the Senate for over twenty years, voted for the Iraq War, and said Barack Obama did not have the experience to be president. I'm sorry, that's our intro for next week when Joe Biden is on, I got confused.

  Jay Leno

  Sorry, Confused, War

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• If you vote against the Defense Authorization Act in the Senate, you would also veto it as president.

  Marco Rubio

  President, Vote, Veto

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• The GOP establishment, in particular, is facing a pick-your-poison kind of decision. Many establishment Republicans dislike [Ted] Cruz personally. He has no Senate endorsements.

  Mara Liasson

  Decision, Poison, Kind

  "As Iowa Race Nears, Anti-Establishment Leaders Hold Strong". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2016.

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• That said, I'm embarrassed and furious that so many coal-state Democrats in the U.S. Senate are paralyzing international progress to protect the short term interests of a dying industry that ravages the environment from mine to slag heap.

  Denis Hayes

  Progress, Dying, Coal

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• Sarah Palin. Remember Sarah Palin? She is adorable. She is back on the campaign trail. Really. She's going to campaign in the Senate runoff in Georgia. As soon as she finds out where Georgia is.

  Craig Ferguson

  Adorable, Campaigns, Georgia

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• In trying to explain our political paralysis, analysts cite President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington, and the Senate filibuster, which has devolved into a super-majority threshold for important legislation. These are large factors to be sure, but that list neglects what may be the biggest culprit of all: the childishness, ignorance, and growing incoherence of the public at large.

  Jacob Weisberg

  Ignorance, Political, Important

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• As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Technology, Voice, America

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• The wind doesn't bother me. I'm in the US Senate.

  Bob Dole

  Wind, Bother

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