Quotes of: Senator Keyword

In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

Lamar Alexander

The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!

Barbara Mikulski

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

I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.

John Thune

But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here.

Preston Brooks

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

Richard Lamm

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

Tom Daschle

We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?

Tom Ford

I'm not going to run for Senate and I'm not going to run for Governor. I'd like to put those rumors to rest.

Timothy Griffin

Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

Laura Bush

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The Tea Party has an important voice in the country and now they have a voice in the U.S. Senate.

Mike Lee

He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.

Margaret Truman

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.

Noam Chomsky

I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform.

Cory Booker

I never would have believed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate that the U.S. government could buy GM without a hearing, with no vote, yes or no. There are billions and billions of dollars at stake here.

Mike Johanns

I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.

Adhir Kalyan

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.

Eleanor Clift

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

John Spencer

President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

Peter Fenn

One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved.

Bill Nelson