Quotes About Politics

During the second term of the Clinton presidency... I thought, 'Here is the literal and figurative role model for the United States of America behaving like a perverted little kid.' I just found it all really unmanly and undignified.

Bernie Sanders is a socialist. I think Bernie Sanders is good candidate for president of Sweden. We don't want to be Sweden. We want to be the United States of America.

Let's resolve here and now that Hillary Clinton will never become the president of the United States of America.

For there to be any redemption of a right of center conservative party in the United States of America means the party of Trump must be destroyed politically.

I love being in the United States Senate.

If segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.

Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.

It would be wonderful to be a member of the United States Senate.

I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.

1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six to the United States Senate.

We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate.

I think Evan Bayh directly should answer to the many Hoosiers I've spoken with who have questions about his ethical practices, or lack thereof, when he served in the United States Senate.

I think it's a time to be sad about what's been done to the United States Senate, the greatest deliberative body in the world.

The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.

For most governors, we find the United States Senate or the United States Congress very frustrating at the slow pace in which they act. There doesn't seem to be a lot of discipline and organization to what they do.

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 happen because of the makeup of the Senate.

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it.

It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.

I wasn't looking for a hobby. If I were looking for a hobby, it wouldn't be the United States Senate. That's one of the toughest jobs I'd probably ever do. I just felt there wasn't enough compromise going on: People were too far to the left, too far to the right, with no one trying to build a compromise.

It's not often that a United States Senate seat comes open.

I have, year after year, been named the most bipartisan member of the whole United States Senate. I have proved my independence.

More than a few Republicans in the United States Senate seem to have contracted a severe case of what Harry Truman called 'Potomac Fever' (wanting to go along to get along in Washington).

If I am elected, God willing, to the United States Senate, I will be leading the charge for President Trump.

Mitch McConnell has, as much as anyone, done great damage to the United States Senate as an institution that was once known as the world's greatest deliberative body.