Senators Quotes - Page 4

• By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year.

  William J. Clinton

  Education, Math, Years

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• Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee - a tradition I'd like very much to continue.

  Al Franken

  Two, Minnesota, Proud

  Interview with Chris Weigant, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2008.

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• I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee.

  George McGovern

  White, House, Presidential

  "Hope and Change ... the Constitution" by Larry Elder, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 25, 2010.

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• A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president.

  Pat Robertson

  Thinking, Virginia, Guy

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• I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

  Pat Robertson

  Thinking, America, Judging

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• There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Inspiration

  Daily Telegram number 2678 on March 06, 1935. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Roosevelt years, 1933-1935". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

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• Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.

  Tom Daschle

  Decision, Want, Process

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• The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.

  Ann Coulter

  Rolling, Facts, Republican

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• How is it possible that a process can be democratic when it comes by way of money? If there is money then it can be elected a senator, it can be elected a representative. Do you know how much it cost to be elected president of the United States? The amount has reached, billions of dollars, 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion dollars, that's how much a presidential campaign costs. How much does a senatorial campaign cost? It costs 80 to 90 million dollars; or the campaign of a representative, 40 to 50 million. Is that really a democracy?

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Presidential, Democracy, Doe

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• I'm running for senator because it's time for a change.

  John Sununu

  Change, Running, Time For A Change

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• As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

  John McCain

  Dream, Honesty, Standards

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• So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senators to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.

  Jim DeMint

  Jobs, Cutting, Thinking

  "Sen. Jim DeMint: 'We Are Monetizing Our Debt'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. November 8, 2010.

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• The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry.

  Howard Dean

  Iraq, Facts, Democrat

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• The way I see it, I'm not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I'm going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.

  Al Franken

  Minnesota, Way, States

  "Franken Declares Victory in Minnesota Senate Race". Minnesota senate race speech, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 30, 2009.

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• Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

  Judd Gregg

  Tv Shows, People, Tvs

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• Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.

  Al Franken

  Jobs, Differences, Minnesotans

  Interview with Chris Weigant, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2008.

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• 'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Country, Drs, Looks

  Van Wyck Brooks 'New England Indian Summer' (1940) p. 418 n.

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• Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.

  Peter Jennings

  War, Vietnam, Firsts

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• In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

  Al Franken

  Judging, Hearing, Firsts

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• I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars' worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars' worth of expenses.

  Carly Fiorina

  Jobs, Mean, Cutting

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• There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of Democratic mythology, ghostwritten for an ambitious young Massachusetts Senator who never did a thing for himself if he could pay to have it done by others.

  L. Neil Smith

  Ambitious, Selfless, Massachusetts

  "Pursuing Invariably the Same Object". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. April 18, 2010.

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• You may have noticed that Senator Obama’s supporters have been saying some pretty nasty things about Western Pennsylvania lately. And you know, I couldn’t agree with them more.

  John McCain

  Pennsylvania, May, Nasty

  "McCain Fights to Keep Crucial Blue State in Play" by • Elisabeth Bumiller and Jeff Zeleny, www.nytimes.com. October 21, 2008.

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• Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties?

  Brad Meltzer

  Lust, Pockets, Underwear

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• I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the next Supreme Court seat will probably go to a Latino. This isn't always because they object to sharing the spoils, by the way; it just reminds us that the melting pot may not be working, and we haven't yet achieved the ambiguous national dream of becoming a nation of indistinguishable beige atheists.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Dream, Atheist, Men

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