Senate Quotes - Page 21

• I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, Lasts, Defeated

  "Interview with Senator Claire McCaskill". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 4, 2010.

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• People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.

  Harry Reid

  People, Nevada, Streets

  "The Ed Show" with Ed Schultz, www.nbcnews.com. October 21, 2010.

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• The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president's willing to do. And they don't like benefit cuts. And everyone here should understand all 45 Senate Democrats are united. We are not going to let this happen.

  Harry Reid

  Cutting, People, President

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. March 13, 2005.

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• The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.

  John Ensign

  Spending, Committees, Appropriation

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• Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

  Patty Murray

  United States, Computer, Senators

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• In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.

  George J. Mitchell

  Christmas, Spring, Years

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• The Senate decided they will be smoke-free. They ordained that all public areas in the Senate are now smoke-free. However, the senators themselves will still be allowed to blow smoke up each other's asses.

  Bill Maher

  Blow, Political, Election

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• If there are few conservatives in the senate wing of the Republican Party that will say no to a budget that never balances, we could have the power to say to the leadership, you know what, need a better budget.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Wings, Balance

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• This is the Immorality Act of 1927.To prohibit illicit carnal intercourse between Europeans and natives and other acts in relation thereto. Be it enacted by the king's most excellent Majesty, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa as follows.

  Trevor Noah

  Kings, House, Unions

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I don't think the political class has the slightest idea even yet what is in store for them. And I'll tell you something else, too. I'm not sure, based on a couple things, that even the Republicans in the House and Senate are ready for this. I mean, the breakneck pace with which Trump is going to attempt to get his agenda implemented and the techniques and the methods that he will use to do so.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Couple, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think it's not just Republicans who would like to see the Senate run differently. I think there are a reasonable number of Democrats as well.

  Mitch McConnell

  Running, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• There are even a few [people] who still honestly believe I sold information to [Vladimir] Putin - like personally, in exchange for asylum. And this is after the Senate Intelligence Committee chair, who gets to read the NSA's reporting on my activities every morning, said all of these conspiracies are delusional.

  Edward Snowden

  Morning, Believe, Nsa

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• Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Republicans. Any farmer will tell you that certain animals run around and are unpleasant, but when they've been fixed, then they are happy and sedate. They are contented and cheerful. They don't go around peeing on the furniture and such.

  Grover Norquist

  Running, Animal, House

  "Feingold Rides the Zeitgeist Over Eleanor Clift" by Digby, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• All we have to do is replace Obama. ... We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. ... We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don't need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate.

  Grover Norquist

  Thinking, Years, House

  "Norquist: Romney Will Do As Told—David Frum". www.thedailybeast.com. February 13, 2012.

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• Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.

  Ted Cruz

  Cat, Government, Littles

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• Between [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump's team, I don't see a lot of openings for making real progress.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Team, Majority Leader

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [Madness] happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book [Speaking Freely: A Memoir] - when the House and the Senate, back in 1984, were debating a bill that would - at least delay and maybe stop some of the ex - summary execution of disabled children - infants. And the Down syndrome kids and other kids had been, in some cases, routinely let die, to use the euphemism.

  Nat Hentoff

  Children, Book, Kids

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• An example is ObamaCare, which is now embattled in the Senate. If that goes through the way [Barack] Obama wants, we will have something very much like the British system.

  Nat Hentoff

  Obamacare, Example, Want

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• The Senate gathered to say goodbye to Vice President Joe Biden. Biden has been a presence there for more than 40 years.

  Ari Shapiro

  Goodbye, Years, President

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Lying, Stupid

  Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.247

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• He addressed a black lawyer as "boy". That`s why Jeff Sessions couldn`t get through Senate confirmation process under the old rules followed by Democrats and Republicans.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Boys, Black, Lawyer

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Strom Thurmond, the former segregationist candidate for president was the Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1986 and he tried to get Jeff Sessions` nomination through that committee, but he couldn`t.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  President, Nominations, Republican

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There is a new bill in the Senate that is upsetting a lot of people. This bill would give the President the power to shut off the Internet. Al Gore is strongly opposed to it. Not because he invented the Internet. Because he did. But because he just signed up for Match.com.

  Craig Ferguson

  Giving, People, Upset

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• We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.

  Emperor Norton

  Wish, President, United States

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• I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

  Tiberius

  Change, Men, Long

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