Senators Quotes - Page 23

• There are many individual senators, including myself, who have said that, at an appropriate time after disposing of the impeachment matter, that an appropriate censure resolution that seems to me should be considered by the Congress.

  Carl Levin

  Matter, Individual, Resolution

  "House managers make case against the president". www.cnn.com. January 14, 1999.

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• I don't think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don't think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senators. But so many of us want to be athletes, so we're envious of them and we put them up on that pedestal.

  Frank Deford

  Athlete, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Doe, Likes

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• Kids store 10.000 songs on the home computer, after having pricked them on the Net. The company, of the deputies, the senators find that virtuous! However, it is a moral problem: you will not fly, learns one with our children. Moreover, these plunders via the Net are carried out in the anonymat.

  Jean-Louis Murat

  Song, Children, Kids

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• Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President.

  Donald Trump

  Powerful, Men, President

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We do need our defense capabilities. It is a fact that the cuts we are facing today and the cuts that Senator [Ted] Cruz would have supported would leave us with an even smaller Air Force and a smaller Navy than the one we are going to be left with.

  Marco Rubio

  Cutting, Air, Navy

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• To wage war, we need a commander in chief who has made tough calls in tough times and stood up to be held accountable over and over, not first-term senators who've never made an executive decision in their life.

  Carly Fiorina

  War, Tough Times, Decision

  Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• And I want every one of you, every one of us, 100 senators to look in that camera, and you tell your people back home what you think. Don't hide anymore; none of us. That is the essence of our responsibility. And if we're not willing to do it, we're not worthy to be seated right here. We fail our country. If we don't debate this, if we don't debate this, we are not worthy of our country. We fail our country.

  Chuck Hagel

  Country, Home, Responsibility

  "The Battle for Iraq; Ghosts From the Past". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. January 25, 2007.

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• Imagine a senator running for president whose positions included halving the military budget, socializing the medical system, re-regulating the communications and electrical industries, establishing a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans, and equalizing funding for all schools regardless of property valuations - and who promised to fire Alan Greenspan, counseled withdrawal from the World Trade Organization, and, for good measure, spoke warmly of adolescent sexual experimentation. That was Barry Goldwater, conservative.

  Rick Perlstein

  Running, Military, Communication

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• Senator [Ted] Cruz is not qualified to be president because he doesn't have the right temperament and acted like a maniac when he arrived in the Senate.

  Donald Trump

  President, Temperament, Qualified

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• There are now reports that President Obama will name Massachusetts Senator John Kerry to be the next secretary of defense. Apparently this is part of America's new defense strategy to bore our enemies to death.

  Jay Leno

  Names, America, Enemy

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• The best that can be said for those like Senators Nelson and Landrieu is that they held out until Obama and Reid met their price. By now, I can't even recall what it took to make Joe Lieberman say 'Uncle!' But it just goes to prove that when politicians like these three refer to themselves as moderate Democrats, we should recognize that it's similar to the distinction made in a related field when call girls insist they're not streetwalkers. It's the same profession; only the prices differ.

  Burt Prelutsky

  Girl, Uncles, Three

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• The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.

  Mark Steyn

  Men, Ponds, Ugly

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• Senator Obama will be taking office at a critical juncture. There are many pressing challenges facing the international community, including the global financial crisis and global warming. We look forward to working closely with President-elect Obama and his team to address these challenges.

  Helen Clark

  Team, Office, Community

  "George Bush tells Barack Obama: 'Congratulations and go enjoy yourself'". www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2008.

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• Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is now facing a kind of personal dilemma. She can't decide whether to drop the name Clinton from her name, or drop the name Rodham. They can't figure out which one is more embarrassing.

  Jay Leno

  Names, Kind, Embarrassing

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• When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today, we have 2-3 million prisoners: 743 people per 100,000 in the population. The U.S. has 5% of the world's population, but 25% of its prisoners. As Senator Jim Webb once put it, Either we are home to the most evil people on earth or we are doing something different and vastly counterproductive.

  Maia Szalavitz

  War, Home, June

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• Hillary Clinton, our junior senator from New York, announced that she has no intentions of ever, ever running for office of the President of the United States. Her husband, Bill Clinton, is bitterly disappointed. He is crushed. There go his dreams of becoming a two-impeachment family.

  David Letterman

  Running, Dream, New York

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• You know, to listen to Senator Lieberman, Senator Kerry, Representative Gephardt, I'm anti-Israel, I'm anti-trade, I'm anti-Medicare and I'm anti-Social Security. I wonder how I ended up in the Democratic Party. I'm not a new entrant to the Democratic Party. I've been here a long time.

  Howard Dean

  Party, Israel, Long

  Transcript to CNBC/WSJ Democratic Presidential Debate, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2003.

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• Senator Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who I think can do great things for our country.

  Joe Lieberman

  Country, Men, Thinking

  2008 Republican National Convention Speech, Delivered 2 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• The New York Post quoted Senator Hillary Clinton saying that she would never run for President, declaring "That is not something I'm going to be doing. "Which in Clinton talk means "I will be President in three years.

  Tina Fey

  Running, New York, Mean

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• Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

  Alex Gibney

  Sneakers, Democracy, Fundamentals

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A's paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.

  Bob Feller

  Baseball, Team, Player

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• We have a long-standing tradition in this country to follow the advice of Senator Vandenberg, which is that politics ends at the water's edge.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Long, Water

  "Face the Nation" with Jan Crawford, www.cbsnews.com. July 29, 2012,.

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• I enjoyed my new position as vice president, but it took me a while to get used to the fact that I no longer had the voting privileges I had enjoyed for 10 years as a senator.

  Harry S. Truman

  Years, Voting, President

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• ... as we are being blunt, the fact is that Tony [Abbott] and the people who put him in his job do not want to do anything about climate change. They do not believe in human caused global warming. As Tony observed on one occasion "climate change is crap" or if you consider his mentor, Senator Minchin, the world is not warming, its cooling and the climate change issue is part of a vast left wing conspiracy to deindustrialise the world.

  Nick Minchin

  Jobs, Believe, Wings

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