Senate Quotes - Page 25

• It sure did kick up some excitement in the Senate when one Senator called the other Senators 'sons of Wild jackasses.' Well, if you thought it made the Senators hot, you wait till you see what happens when the jackasses hear how they have been slandered.

  Will Rogers

  Son, America, Waiting

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.53, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I'm particularly proud of anything the House and the Senate agree on.

  Arnold Palmer

  House, Proud, Agree

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• And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They dont like to be corrected in company. Dont send messages to em, send candy.

  Will Rogers

  Children, Kids, Ems

  Will Rogers (2006). “The Papers of Will Rogers: The final years, August 1928-August 1935”, p.368, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Though the views of members of the House and Senate are as divergent as the people we represent, we bear the responsibility to work through our political differences and get things done. That's our job.

  Martha Roby

  Jobs, Responsibility, Political Differences

  "Bipartisan test awaits new Congress" by Martha Roby, www.politico.com. November 13, 2012.

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• As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant to reflect the continuity of the past--to preserve the delicate balance of justice between the majority's whims and the minority's rights.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Reflection, Past, Equality

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• Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.

  Will Rogers

  Mind, Looks, Statistics

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• The Senate came one vote short of granting approval to build the Keystone pipeline. Democrats say the pipeline could accelerate global warming. Then people who've been outside today said, 'Sounds good to me. Let's accelerate that global warming.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  People, Sound, Keystone Pipeline

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• Obamacare is a crime against democracy because a material part of that bill was not disclosed to the Senate nor to the House of Representatives. The funding was hidden in the bill. That was fraud and I can't vote for any budget that fails to bring back that money from Obamacare.

  Michele Bachmann

  Obamacare, House, Democracy

  "I Have a Spine Made Out of Titanium". Interview with Marc Hujer, www.spiegel.de. April 18, 2011.

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• The excuse of divided government is over: they have the House and the Senate as well; they have the state legislatures; they have a majority of the governors. And that's exciting. But for me, I think the lesson also is all the opportunities out there for women, increasingly in politics and media and public policy and government affairs - all the things we do here in Washington - that we still have to make choices, there are limits.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Opportunity, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.politico.com

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• One thing was very clear and I made it always very clear at the beginning when I got into the governorship, and that was that I wasn't trying to become a career politician. This was not like I was going to be governor for seven years and then I was going to run for the Senate and then for Congress. That was never my interest.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Running, Years, Careers

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Women's voices aren't heard often enough. Congress should reflect the population, but with only 20 percent women in the Senate and 18 percent in the House, it just doesn't.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Voice, House, Population

  "Meet Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (and Take Her Work Advice)". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2014.

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• It wasn't until 1998 that I ever seriously thought about running for office. And I didn't make up my mind to do that until 1999, and then I ran for the Senate. It was really hard for me.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Office, Mind

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]

  Plutarch

  Opinion, Should, Carthage

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• Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Bros., the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line of a movie magazine deal with the lives of leaders as if they were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

  Ellen Goodman

  White, People, House

  Ellen Goodman (1983). “At Large”, Fawcett Books

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• John Kerry keeping a low profile this week. He said he wanted to get away and go someplace where no one would expect to see him. So I guess he showed up at his old seat in the Senate. Nobody's going to look for him there.

  Jay Leno

  Looks, Week, Profile

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• America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be freedom in a merely political sense that is meant. Even if we grant that the American has freed himself from a political tyrant, he is still the slave of an economical and moral tyrant. Now that the republic--the res- publica--has been settled, it is time to look after the res- privata,--the private state,--to see, as the Roman Senate charged its consuls, "ne quid res-PRIVATA detrimenti caperet," that the private state receive no detriment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, America, Tyrants

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.50, David M Gross

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• Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony.

  John McCain

  Mosquitoes, Nudists, Committees

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• Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox.

  Dave Barry

  House, Musk, Congress

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway”, p.34, Ballantine Books

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• Now the Democrats control the Senate. But the good news is that now the Republicans can admit that Strom Thurmond has been dead since 1988.

  Jay Leno

  News, Republican, Democrat

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• George Bush's vision does not live up to the America I enlisted in the Navy to defend, the America I have fought for in the Senate, and the America that I hope to lead as president.

  John F. Kerry

  America, Navy, Vision

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• The last man to try to run for president advocating a tax increase was Walter Mondale. He lost 49 states in 1984, and the "I'll raise your taxes" reputation haunted him all the way to Minnesota last year, where he lost his 50th state in the Senate election.

  Dick Morris

  Running, Men, Years

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• Just consider the CIA and its effort to suppress the Senate's review of its torture program. Take in the fact that we live in a country that a) legalized torture and b) where no one was ever held to account for it, and now the government's internal look at what happened is being suppressed by the CIA. That's a frightening landscape to be in.

  Laura Poitras

  Country, Government, Effort

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Democrats didn't agree with policies. How do I know? Because they voted against them when they came up on the floor of the House and the Senate.

  George W. Bush

  House, Democrat, Policy

  "President Bush Discusses Midterms; War on Terror Strategy With Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. October 30, 2006.

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• [Ted] Cruz is not at all popular in the Senate. Republicans say he may be too disliked to be a nominee. And there is a real concern about that. I think the one way to go after Trump maybe is go after him as a closet Democrat. That he has supported Democrats in the past.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Real, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating an upper chamber in the European parliament, a new bridge could be built between national political classes, which retain democratic legitimacy, and the decision-making process in Brussels. Such a Senate should be recruited by indirect election from exisiting national parliaments.

  Larry Siedentop

  Bridges, Class, Creating

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