Quotes About Senators

If you had to put people, senators - if they had to go for their V.A. to get care, it would probably get fixed.

I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The memory of Mark Antony and his attempts to create a new eastern Hellenistic empire had not yet died. So sensitive was the situation under Augustus that the emperor prohibited independent visits to the new province by Roman senators and eminent knights.

It was a grim tableau of a reign gone wrong; of an emperor completely isolated at the centre of his empire and his family. Domitian summed up his own predicament succinctly: 'Nobody believes in a conspiracy against a ruler until it has succeeded.'12 His death was a justification of his beliefs; and it was the justification for Hadrian's later hostile action against the four senators.

his fellow senators were glad, too. They congratulated him on his fisticuffs with the pacifists. Some said there were rumors that Lodge had actually killed Bannwart, which had made the senator very popular in their home states.

Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have passports, the decision-makers, senior ranks in the administration, senators on Capitol Hill.

Senators who once supported common-sense legislation have gone silent as stones under the threat of the polluters' spending.

I have introduced legislation - with other senators from both parties, like Bob Corker and Bob Menendez and Joe Manchin - called the 'Countering the Iranian Threats Act', specifically to clamp down on a lot of Iran's nefarious activity throughout the region.

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

What GOP Senators should have learned in 2018 is that they're stronger when they work together.

Republican senators such as Ben Sasse have championed smart, practical policies for working people that actually work.

'USA Today' once did a big article called, 'Who said it? Was it Norm or George Bush?' They had quotes of mine and quotes of his, and they went to some congressmen and senators and said, 'Who said it?' It was hysterical.

Offering his own scalding stream of accusations, he terrified the opposition into silence. "By certain documents," Octavian promised to demonstrate that Antony constituted a threat to Rome. He fixed a date on which he would present his evidence. The opposing consuls had seen the daggers; they knew better than to await that session, and secretly fled the city. Nearly four hundred senators followed, sailing to Ephesus

the address, delivered in passable Spanish with David McCullough and a few senators at his side, was wildly popular in Panama. It was the first time in American history that a full presidential address was delivered in a foreign language, much less given in another language overseas.

To my relief, most of the attending senators seemed to appreciate that promoting global financial stability was in the interest of the United States.

In 2009, Obama surrogate Jim Messina told Democratic Senators that they could defend Obamacare as stridently as possible – because, after all, "If you get hit," Messina said, "we will punch back twice as hard.

Soon after the financial crisis of 2008, I was at a meeting in Washington with a group of U.S. senators. They had invited me to provide a point of view on new regulation; regulation aimed at ensuring we never have to go through the events of 2008 ever again.

Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we've got to do this, and I can understand why congressmen and senators would take their responsibility seriously, but I think in the end we'll get the money.

Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents.

It is illegal for the budget department to discriminate among senators.

The Senate decided they will be smoke-free. They ordained that all public areas in the Senate are now smoke-free. However, the senators themselves will still be allowed to blow smoke up each other's asses.

Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter.

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.

No. He'd make sure they went to see her parents on Christmas. Besides, it would be nice to have a real Christmas dinner that didn't involve senators or a live wild boar they hunted and devoured raw.