Senators Quotes - Page 2

• How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did that party become a party that now loses 95 percent of the black vote?

  Rand Paul

  Party, Rights, Race

  "Sen. Rand Paul Tries To Repair GOP's Image With Minorities". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. April 11, 2013.

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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, Senate

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• Even before the hearings that led to confirmation of Chief Justice Roberts, senators were saying they were reserving judgment on how they would vote until they got to know him better at the hearings.

  Dana Perino

  Justice, Hearing, Vote

  "White House targets doubts on Miers nod", www.washingtontimes.com. October 11, 2005.

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• I am a mom as well as a senator!

  Patty Murray

  Mom, Feminist, Wells

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

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• It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred to [the likes of Senators Brownback and Obama] that they bear a worse stigma than any AIDS patient, being almost universally regarded as blowhards, crooks, dopes, and fools.

  Stephen D. Cox

  Dope, Class, Political

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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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• There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. … And having these kinds of things happen, whether it's a Republican or Democratic senator — we certainly have had plenty of Democratic scandals in the past — we need people who are in office who will hold themselves to a little higher standard.

  John Ensign

  Past, Office, People

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• Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible.

  John Ensign

  Fields, Troops

  "Raising the volume" by John F. Dickerson and Karen Tumulty, www.cnn.com. March 15, 2004.

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• I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Party, Color, Achievement

  Republican National Convention Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did.

  George J. Mitchell

  Jobs, Couple, Years

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• And we support Senator Joseph Lieberman, that it's time for our country to consider a military preemptive strike against Iran if they will not yield to diplomacy

  John Hagee

  Country, Military, Yield

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. October 5, 2007.

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• The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers

  John Spencer

  Years, Needs, Clinton

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• I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.

  Roy Acuff

  Two, President, Done

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• It is not up to the senators to determine whether an NGO is bogus or not

  Jinggoy Estrada

  Determine

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• Crime is based upon need, making money.  People sell drugs to make money.  But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to.  There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor.  There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off.  If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.

  Jacque Fresco

  Money, Caring, Gambling

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• Senator Lugar will also travel to Libya for official meetings as a part of the president's initiative to move toward more normal relations reflecting that country's renunciation of terrorism and abandonment of its weapons of mass destruction and longer range missiles.

  Dana Perino

  Country, Moving, Mass Destruction

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• I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.

  Fred Thompson

  Thinking, Justice, Way

  "Choosing a New Supreme Court Justice". "Special Report" with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. July 6, 2005.

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• Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood.

  George McGovern

  Blood, Responsible, Graves

  George Stanley McGovern (1977). “Grassroots: the autobiography of George McGovern”, Random House (NY)

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• The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.

  Bernie Sanders

  Majority, Climate, Lines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation.

  Christopher Dodd

  War, Thinking, Virginia

  "Dodd praise for Byrd hit by GOP". www.washingtontimes.com. April 8, 2004.

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• McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

  Pat Buchanan

  Wisconsin, Wisconsin Weather, Persons

  "Feingold Flirts With Anti-War Platform". www.foxnews.com. September 06, 2005.

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• As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan's heritage and its economy.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Drinking, Responsibility, Lakes

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• It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot.

  Dick Durbin

  Senior, Country, Cutting

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• The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.

  John Jay Hooker

  Giving, Advice, President

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• Flip-flopping is kind of an easy thing to identify. During a recent convention, we heard an irate Senator make an angry speech declaring that it is not what you say but, rather, what you do that counts. You flip-flop when you make promises and fail to fulfill them.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Promise, Speech, Flip

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