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Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work. -- Robert Caro
I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate. -- Robert Torricelli
The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate. -- Chuck Grassley
Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot. -- Joe Biden
Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born. -- John Jay Hooker
Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate! -- Patty Murray
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation. -- Will Rogers
Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee. -- Scott Howell
It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down. -- Arlen Specter
When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support... He is the right person for the job. -- Saxby Chambliss
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. -- Dee Dee Myers
I will not seek reelection the United States Senate but will retire from public service in January 2013. There is no reason other than the fact than I think it's time. -- Jon Kyl
Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her. -- John McCain
It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says. -- John Jay Hooker
What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well. -- Olympia Snowe
You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus building. That was certainly the vision of the founding fathers. -- Olympia Snowe
To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing. -- Christine Todd Whitman
I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed. -- George Allen
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. -- Harry Reid
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. -- Dave Heineman
I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe. -- Barbara Mikulski
I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice, all Americans ought to be able to hold insurance companies accountable, I think we will have 60 votes in the United States Senate for a strong bill. -- Ron Wyden
If the notion on this is we're going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th least senior person in there and be polite, and somewhere in their fourth or fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody cares about, don't vote for me. -- Elizabeth Warren
Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women. -- Elizabeth Warren
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. -- Claire McCaskill
The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is... I want to win a Nobel Peace prize. -- Marco Rubio
Israel controls the United States Senate. -- J. William Fulbright
I have a very strong record on the Environment in the United States Senate. -- Dan Quayle
Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life. -- Dean Heller
Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work -- Robert Caro
He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate. -- Margaret Truman
The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life. -- Robert Torricelli
I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate. -- John Thune
I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration. -- Jack Reed
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The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament. -- John McCain
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The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control. -- Jeff Flake
In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead. -- Richard Burr
I've been a strong supporter of public financing my whole career. I'm the first guy to introduce a public financing bill to the United States Senate in 1973. -- Joe Biden
If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress. -- Patty Murray
Women are beginning to feel that they are not fairly represented. As we say, 2% may be fine for fat in milk, but not for the United States Senate. -- Dianne Feinstein
I have been for border security for years. I voted for border security in the United States Senate. And my comprehensive immigration reform plan of course includes border security. -- Hillary Clinton
The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states. -- Olympia Snowe
I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process. -- Bernie Sanders
We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president's acts declared unconstitutional. -- Arlen Specter
Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders. -- Margaret Chase Smith
The real con artist is Senator Marco Rubio.Who was elected in Florida and who has the worst voting record in the United States Senate. He doesn't go to vote. He's absent. -- Donald Trump
Washington always has a high level of hypocrisy, right, but I think the level of hypocrisy that has come out of the United States Senate on both sides of the aisle is amazing. -- Matthew Dowd
In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority. -- Dick Cheney
I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate. -- John Jay Hooker
Marco Rubio doesn't go to the United States Senate. I must say, if I were a United States senator, I would be so honored to be in that magnificent chamber voting for the people of Florida. -- Donald Trump
I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed." -- George Allen
We have huge national security issues in this country, and the United States Senate ought to be pushing President [Barack] Obama towards the proper policies that right now are a complete disaster based on his policies. -- Jeb Bush
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 dont recognize common ground even when theyre standing on it. -- Harry Reid
I grew up in a family that nearly lost everything, but I ended up in the United States Senate because I grew up in an America that invested in kids like me and built a real future for us. -- Elizabeth Warren
Since nobody upstages Rudolph Giuliani, his will be a Broadway-class show, perhaps his final bravura performance before November 2000, when he hopes to be turned out of the mayor's office by virtue of his election to the United States Senate. -- Gail Sheehy
Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United States Senate would actually ratify a bad treaty, anything called for under the treaty would require legislation passed through both houses. -- Thomas Schelling
The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who, during his campaign, once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions. -- Barack Obama
I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate. -- Olympia Snowe
Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it's suddenly their campaign platform. -- Barack Obama
[Marco]Rubio comes out. He represents for a short period of time the people of Florida. He has got the worst attendance record in the United States Senate, doesn`t vote. He is weak on, very weak on illegal immigration, totally in favor of amnesty. -- Donald Trump
I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubbles power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe. -- Barbara Mikulski
One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history. -- Barbara Mikulski
I do think the most important thing we need in leadership in our country, not just in the presidency but in the United States Senate, are people that have a clear vision of what the role of government should be in our lives and what the role of America should be in the world. -- Marco Rubio
Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school! -- Patty Murray
I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it. -- Chris Christie
I've got the best job in the world being a senator from the United States, a senator from South Carolina in the United States Senate, representing South Carolina in the United States Senate is a dream job for me, but the world is literally falling apart. And we can't get anything done here at home. So that drives my thinking more than anything else. -- Lindsey Graham
The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate. -- David C. Hardesty, Jr.

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