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We must return conservatives to the majority in the U.S. Senate. — Jeb Bush

Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years. — Martin O'Malley

I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration. — Jack Reed

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity, — Robert A. Caro

We'll look to the fall and if there is a new president and a new Senate that's part of a Congress willing to change, that's the next step. — Scott Walker

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

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident. — Chuck Grassley

I want to have a good vote in the Senate so we send the message that the Republicans and the Democrats are together in favor of immigration reform. — Bob Menendez

I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. — Dan Quayle

We need more Democrats in the Senate -Like Custer needed more arrows. — Ronald Reagan

The role of the vice president is to break ties in the Senate and inquire daily into the health of the president. — John McCain

The wind doesn't bother me. I'm in the US Senate. — Bob Dole

Jeff Sessions is the lone voice in the Senate ... — Rush Limbaugh

For Tammy Duckworth to blame the junior senator from Illinois for Islamic terror shows that she is a naive fool not fit for office in the Senate. — Mark Kirk

My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group. — Amy Klobuchar

I'm very proud to have joined with conservatives in both the Senate and the House to reform how we target bad guys. — Ted Cruz

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation. — Will Rogers

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

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts. — Don Nickles

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

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful. — Sarah Palin

Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against. — Irvine Welsh

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

And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000. — William J. Clinton

Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate.
(on the birth of his granddaughter) — Herbert Hoover

There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day! — Arlen Specter

You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate. — Mark Pryor

By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year. — Mike McGavick

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot. — Joe Biden

If you vote against act in the Senate, you would also veto it as president. — Marco Rubio

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks. — Everett Dirksen

Women belong in the house - and in Senate.'

T-shirt — Alison F. Prince

I don't like to see facts twisted, untruths fabricated to give the [Supreme Court] nominee a black eye, even before he comes before Senate committee. — Chuck Grassley

There are times where the dysfunction in the Senate just goes too far. — Bob Corker

A writer worth his salt is probably better off in an adversarial relation with the U.S. Senate. — Walker Percy

When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and says to himself, 'You're presidential material,' — Geraldine Ferraro

Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate. — Jeb Bush

The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony. — Gracie Allen

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it. — Richard Lamm

I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate ... it's too slow for me. — Chuck Robb

Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate. — John Dingell

I have been in the Democratic Caucus in the Senate for over 24 years. — Bernie Sanders

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge. — Lindsey Graham

She felt like she was in Candy Land, minus the lollipops on the trees. — Melissa Senate

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you. — Pat Roberts

My job in the Senate is not just to give speeches and do interviews, it's to solve problems. — Marco Rubio

We focused attention on what some believe are the flaws in the process leading to Senate consideration of the bill and the flaws of the bill itself. — Harry Reid

I like the House. The House is where you can effect the most change. It's such a fast-moving dynamic body compared to the Senate. — Steve Scalise

I firmly believe the Senate should see more voting and debate and less standing around and waiting for backroom deals. — James Lankford

A Senate vote on gay marriage is a destructive pretension against the plan of God — Pope Francis

The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many. — Marco Rubio

All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN — Chuck Grassley

Decades of the seniority rule had conferred influence in the Senate not on men who broke new ground but on men who were careful not to. — Robert A. Caro

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate! — Patty Murray

The chaplain of the Senate does not pray for the Senate. He watches the Senate and prays for the country. — Sam Levenson

Prior to that I testified before the Senate subcommittee addressing mountaintop removal. — Kevin Richardson

I should hate to think that the Senate was as tired of me at the beginning of my service as I am of the Senate at the end. — Charles G. Dawes

I'm particularly proud of anything the House and the Senate agree on, — Arnold Palmer

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law. — Norman Lamm

They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same. — Harry Reid

I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children. — Kelly Ayotte

The Vice-President is supreme boss of the Senate. — Sarah Palin

I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual. — Clara Barton

The ones who are in the Senate have to have a position. — Amy Walter

I think [Whitewater]'s going to prevent the First Lady from running for Senate. — Ann Coulter

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE. — Kristin Hannah

The Senate being tied is a start. Now, if only it could be gagged. — Bob Thaves

[The Senate] ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. — James Madison

Thank you, Captain Obvious."
"I'm on the Senate," he reminded me. "It's Lord Obvious. — Karen Chance

Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate. — Mike Mansfield

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life. — Dean Heller

The sword must yield to the toga, Cicero had told the Roman Senate, and the friars in the Philippines thought a cassock was as good as a toga. But — Jose Rizal

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors. — Ambrose Bierce

The Tea Party has an important voice in the country and now they have a voice in the U.S. Senate. — Mike Lee

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men. — Benjamin F. Wade

The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm. — P. J. O'Rourke

I do not intend to allow the Senate to rubber-stamp the president's plan to reward the Chinese Communists. — Jesse Helms

The information that follows is taken primarily ... from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees. — G. Edward Griffin

I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments. — Colleen Hanabusa

When I do my hiring in the United States Senate, I look at issues of diversity. — Cory Booker

The U.S. Senate presented the most powerful obstacle to any progressive reform. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate. — Nancy Pelosi

Come and take your seat, Lady Dorina. — Karen Chance

The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans. — John Cornyn

I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there. — Hillary Clinton

It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate. — Rand Paul

I think the problem with President Obama - and I like him personally, I came into the Senate with him - is his agenda. — John Thune

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts. — Jeb Bush

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

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator. — Jim DeMint

To my knowledge, there's never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate. — Peter Agre

I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future. — Rand Paul

Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents. — Alberto Gonzales

I was in the state Senate in Wyoming, and we actually legislated. We offered amendments on bills and voted on things. — John Barrasso

If a minister can lead the Senate in prayer every day ... what is so wrong with beginning every day of school with an ecumenical prayer? — Jim Webb

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate. — Bob Corker

The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him. — Will Rogers

A man who had the legions of the east marching at his back could be bred by a donkey on a mule and the senate would have no choice but to accept him. — M.C. Scott

It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate. — Lionel Murphy

Israel controls the United States Senate. — J. William Fulbright