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Senator Richard Lugar is a towering figure in Hoosier history and one of the greatest statesmen ever to serve in the U.S. Senate.

Oklahoma senator Fred Harris, who ran for president as a Democrat in 1976.

I will not vote in favor of Senator Sessions' nomination for attorney general.

I doubt the people of North Carolina will be content to allow the governor to decide or even unduly influence selecting their senator.

Since I became a senator in 2015, my office has been inundated by countless letters, emails, and calls from North Carolinians telling us how Obamacare has been a nightmare for them and their families.

The second bomber went after a Tennessee Republican state senator who'd voted down the Medicare expansion, despite his campaign promise to make sure that "every Tennessean who wants insurance will get insurance.

was the result of government policies, carefully crafted in a thoughtful and bipartisan atmosphere, that assured America's lead in building an information-age economy. The most influential person in this process, which may come as a surprise to those who know of his role only as a punch line to jokes, was Senator Al Gore Jr. of Tennessee.

What a situation, now, for a patriotic senator, that had been all the week before spurring up the legislature of his native state to pass more stringent resolutions against escaping fugitives, their harborers and abettors!

Senator Chris Dodd unveiled his plan to reduce corruption in the Senate. He's retiring.

Making college affordable is a really important goal, and my plan will work better than Senator [Bernie] Sanders' plan by everybody who has looked at it.

Obama the President needs to stand up for what Obama the candidate and what Obama the Senator and what Obama the Chicago community organizer stood for and lead the Congress towards reform.

I love working for the people of Ohio, and I have a lot more work to do as their senator.

I'm very happy where I am: I'm a senator from Ohio.

My sister lives in Oklahoma. And, you know, it is so shocking that James Inhofe, the foremost climate-denying senator, is from the state that is so deeply climate-affected.

Prescott Bush was himself a president of the U. S. Golf Association at one time - 1935 - before he became a U.S. senator from the state of Connecticut.

My dear child," beamed Martin Silenus, "I am not trying to tell you anything. I just thought it might be entertaining—as well as edifying and enlightening—if at some point we exchanged lists of all the locations at which we have either robbed or been robbed. Since you have the unfair advantage of having been the daughter of a senator, I am sure that your list would be much more distinguished Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and much longer." Lamia

It is widely known that whenever Senator Johnson feels the urge to act the statesman at the cost of a little political capital," WFB wrote in June 1958, "he lies down until he gets over it.

One U.S. senator has described Russia as "a gas station masquerading as a country"—and indeed, oil and gas play as large a role as ever.

Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.

The senator got so tired on the campaign trail that he started kissing hands and shaking babies.

All I can say is Mike Lee is an embarrassment to the state of Utah. He's been a tremendous embarrassment to our family, to our state, to our country to have him as a U.S. senator.

I think a sitting senator who's been there 36 years is not doing a favor to anyone in the state of Utah nor to the country.

I still have that new senator smell.