Senators Quotes - Page 26

• Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!

  Harold H. Greene

  New York, Next Day, Lines

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• Personally, having, you know, lived and worked in the White House, having been a senator, having been Secretary of State, there has traditionally been a great pool of very talented, hard-working people.

  Hillary Clinton

  Hard Work, White, People

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• When I was secretary of state, I went around the world advocating for America, but also advocating for women's rights, to make sure that women had a decent chance to have a better life and negotiated a treaty with Russia to lower nuclear weapons. Four hundred pieces of legislation have my name on it as a sponsor or cosponsor when I was a senator for eight years.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, Russia, Eight

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

  Carl Schurz

  Country, Republic, Wisconsin

  Remarks in Senate, 29 Feb. 1872 See Decatur 1; Chesterton 3; Twain 114

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• School choice opponents are also dishonest when they speak of saving public schools. A Heritage Foundation survey found that 47 percent of House members and 51 percent of senators with school-age children enrolled them in private schools in 2001. Public school teachers enroll their children in private schools to a much greater extent than the general public, in some cities close to 50 percent.

  Walter E. Williams

  Teacher, Children, School

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• It is regrettable that Senator Kennedy has chosen Veteran's Day to continue leveling baseless and false attacks that send the wrong signal to our troops and our enemy during a time of war. It is also regrettable that Senator Kennedy has found more time to say negative things about President Bush then he ever did about Saddam Hussein. If America were to follow Senator Kennedy's foreign policy, Saddam Hussein would not only still be in power, he would be oppressing and occupying Kuwait.

  Scott McClellan

  War, Kuwait, America

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• We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary. We don't feel that in 1964, living in a country that is supposedly based upon freedom, and supposedly the leader of the free world, we don't think that we should have to sit around and wait for some segregationist congressmen and senators and a President from Texas in Washington, D.C., to make up their minds that our people are due now some degree of civil rights. No, we want it now or we don't think anybody should have it.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  Malcolm X (1992). “By Any Means Necessary”, Pathfinder Press (NY)

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• Hillary Clinton has been a disaster as a senator. A disaster.

  Donald Trump

  Clinton, Disaster, Has Beens

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• How do you, on the one hand, not object to Hillary Clinton being elected, and then, on the other hand, tell people, "Elect me to stop her"? It seems like they're giving themselves a really tough position to occupy here, be they governors, senators, congressional members of the House of Representatives. They want to stop Hillary but not enough to keep her out of the White House. "So she'll get in there, but you need to elect us to put the brakes on her."

  Rush Limbaugh

  White, Hands, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In America, one of the biggest problems we have with China is the illegal dumping of steel and aluminum into our markets. I have fought against that as a senator. I've stood up against it as secretary of state.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, Steel, Aluminum

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• I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

  Nikki Haley

  White, African American, Rags

  "South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley Says She'd Turn Down VP Nod" by Cynthia McFadden and Amy Bingham, abcnews.go.com. April 02, 2012.

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• Senator McGovern is very sincere when he says that he will try to cut the military budget by 30%. And this is to drive a knife in the heart of Israel... Jews don't like big military budgets. But it is now an interest of the Jews to have a large and powerful military establishment in the United States... American Jews who care about the survival of the state of Israel have to say, no, we don't want to cut the military budget, it is important to keep that military budget big, so that we can defend Israel.

  Irving Kristol

  Powerful, Military, Heart

  "Congress Bi-Weekly". Book published by the American Jewish Congress, 1973.

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• I am encouraged President Obama now says he will fulfill his constitutional obligation to seek authorization for any potential military action in Syria. This is the most important decision any President or any Senator must make, and it deserves vigorous debate

  Rand Paul

  Military, Decision, Important

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Aug 31, 2013

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• In South Carolina, Senator John Edwards won handily, fulfilling his promise to win every state he was born in.

  Jon Stewart

  Winning, Promise, South Carolina

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• China is illegally dumping steel in the United States and Donald Trump is buying it to build his buildings, putting steelworkers and American steel plants out of business. That's something that I fought against as a senator and that I would have a trade prosecutor to make sure that we don't get taken advantage of by China on steel or anything else.

  Hillary Clinton

  Taken, United States, Steel

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• We've seen some good progress, some good forward momentum. We have about Republican senators who have now indicated that they'll meet with Judge Merric Garland.

  Denis McDonough

  Judging, Progress, Momentum

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• When Hillary Clinton was a U.S. senator, she voted for some trade deals when they met her standards, but she voted against others when they didn't.

  Tim Kaine

  Clinton, Mets, Standards

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• It was interesting, when the Affordable Care Act passed, Arizona did it immediately, even though they had two Republican senators, a Republican governor, Republican legislature.

  Tim Kaine

  Two, Interesting, Arizona

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think that is a fair general statement, but I also believe that Senator [Barack] Obama served on a board with Mr. [Bill] Ayers for a period of time, the Woods Foundation, which was a paid directorship position.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Thinking, Foundation

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had conceivably been cheered up, by a short study of the Middle Ages. The hydrogen bomb, the South African Government, Chioang Kaidick, Senator McCarthy himself, would then seem a light price to pay for no longer being in the Middle Ages.

  Kingsley Amis

  Cheer, Believe, Reality

  Kingsley Amis (1992). “Lucky Jim”, Penguin Classics

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• I haven't officially spoken in public about that issue, but I don't think it's a secret that Carlos [López-Cantera] has been a good friend of mine for many years. I respect him. I think he has done a great job as a state representative, as property appraiser in South Florida, and he's doing so now as lieutenant governor of Florida, and I think he would be a great senator, but I don't have an announcement for you today.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Good Friend, Thinking

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• In fact, one day I was going to Jackson and I saw a huge sign that U.S. Senator John Stennis was speaking that night for the White Citizens Council in Yazoo City and they also have a State Charter that they may set up for "private schools." It is no secret.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  School, Night, Cities

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Yellow, Giving, Gold

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• Senator Kennedy inspired so many with his decades of service, so I can't think of a more fitting tribute then working to educate and motivate future generations of citizens and public servants alike.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Generations, Citizens

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• Anyone who gets his or her political news primarily from the New York Times (which made the ethically challenged carpetbagger Hillary a senator) is a fool.

  Camille Paglia

  New York, Political, News

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