Quotes About Senate

As a report released by the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee put it, the Russians sought to "blur the lines between reality and fiction, erode our trust in media entities and the information environment, in government, in each other, and in democracy itself." It took years before Americans understood this.

The Republican Party as now constituted is the Ku Klux Klan of Indiana," he wrote in his influential paper, the Indianapolis Freeman. "The nominees for governor, house, the senate and city offices are all Klansmen.

At the peak of his power, D. C. Stephenson wanted to wipe the dirt of the Midwest from his shoes. He would say goodbye to India-no-place, Naptown, as the swells in his circle called the capital city. This was the year to do it, depending on when that Senate seat opened. All that would stand between him and Klan control over much of the United States was Madge Oberholtzer.

I am running for the U.S. Senate so that your kids and mine can continue to live in the kind of country that gave my family the blessings of liberty and freedom that only America offers.

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.

Ukridge drew the mackintosh which he wore indoors and out of doors in all weathers more closely around him. There was in the action something suggestive of a member of the Roman Senate about to denounce an enemy of the State. In just such a manner must Cicero have swished his toga as he took a deep breath preparatory to assailing Clodius.

It's a negative for the country. It implicates dozens of private companies, many of which are made up of honest people. It besmirches the office of the U.S. Senate and is bad for the country's morale. Dishonest politicians hurt all politicians. Americans need to trust their leaders. This would be an ugly investigation

Tyler introduced a measure to radically alter the Senate, requiring a majority of slave state senators before any action could be taken; for a majority of slave state senators to remove any officer of the executive branch; and for a method for states to formally leave the Union.

the Senate in 1958. He was the

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.

It is absurd to suggest a president whose party controls the Senate should jointly decline to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat - ever.

The Constitution makes very clear what the obligation of the United States Senate is and what the obligation of the president of the United States is. To allow a Supreme Court position to remain vacant for well over a year cuts against what I think the intentions of the framers are and what the traditions of the Senate and the executive are.

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

I'm confident that Senate Republicans will put up a very strong and valiant effort to continue doing what we're united around.

In the U.S. Senate, in the short term we need to reduce the tax burden on hard working individuals, families, and small businesses.

In the Iowa senate, I helped pass the largest tax cut in state history - returning over four billion dollars in savings and putting more money back in the pockets of hard-working Iowa families.

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

Senate Democrats blocked President Obama's trade bill yesterday because they're worried it could hurt jobs. It's not an issue for Republicans, since they've all found work as presidential candidates.

I hope President-elect Trump will work with me and with the rest of the Senate to try to keep more jobs here in America.

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

As a candidate for Senate, I look forward to offering reforms based on limited government principles that will make our country stronger and more prosperous.

When I was in politics, I debated a Nobel Prize-winning economist, climate change activists, governors, senators, congressmen. I debated anybody on an issue I felt strongly about.

Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.