The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people. January 1830
Senator Kelly: I have here a list of names of identified mutants living right here in the United States. Dr. Jean Grey: Senator... Senator Kelly: Here's a girl in Illinois who can walk through walls. Now what's to stop her from walking into a bank va...
I am a junior senator, ninety-fifth on the seniority list, and so by Senate standards, my office in the Russell Senate Office Building is less than splendid.
Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happe...
The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,
You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go ho...
Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like J...
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.
Today, as in Clark's day, the U.S Senate remains a club for millionaires. No longer checked by 'instructions' from state legislatures, senators are also more likely to serve for life than they were before passage of the amendment. 'It is as difficult...
Captain Colton: We are receiving a message from the Chancellor's office, sir. Senator Bail Organa: Send it through. Captain Colton: Yes, sir. [the pilot pushes some buttons and Mas Amedda appears on screen] Mas Amedda: Senator Organa... the Supreme C...
[to Senator Kelly] Magneto: Are you a God-fearing man, Senator? That is such a strange phrase. I've always thought of God as a teacher; a bringer of light, wisdom, and understanding. You see, I think what you really fear is me. Me and my kind. The Br...
A senator will come off Capitol Hill and they'll be barred from two years from lobbying in the Senate. So they'll pick the phone up and they'll call their buddy, the senator, their old buddies, and they'll say, 'Listen, I'm here at this law firm now....
Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
[the X-Men help Senator Kelly, a victim of Magneto's mutant machine] Senator Kelly: I was afraid they'd... Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: Treat you like a mutant? [pause] Prof. Charles Francis Xavier: We're not what you think. Not all of us. Senator K...
I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate.
I'm blessed to represent Florida in the United States Senate.
Senators came to realize that he understood not only their bills but the reasons they had introduced them;
