Top 205 Senator Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Senator Quotes from famous people such as Brian Tyree Henry, Nikki Haley, Sara Gideon, George W. Bush, Luis Gutierrez, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I hope Paper Boi runs for president. I hope he does. Go

I hope Paper Boi runs for president. I hope he does. Governor, mayor, senator, I hope he does it all. You better believe it.
Brian Tyree Henry
I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.
Nikki Haley
As senator, my focus will be on standing up for Mainers, especially when it comes to protecting our rights and fighting for our health care.
Sara Gideon
Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.
George W. Bush
I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama’s candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one.
Luis Gutierrez
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
As New York’s United States Senator, I promise to reinstate the Moynihan ‘Fisc Report’ and work every day to address the imbalance of payments, first by focusing on reducing the amount of taxes we send to Washington, and second, by ensuring that funding formulas don’t disadvantage New York.
Wendy Long
As senator, Mainers can count on me to always prioritize Maine’s small businesses.
Sara Gideon
I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm’s political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I’m now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.
John Edwards
Certainly, the job of a U.S. senator is to create a climate conducive to creating jobs, which is lower taxes and less government regulation. What Harry Reid has been doing is putting forward those policies that actually put more regulation on business.
Sharron Angle
In my heart of hearts, I truly believe that Senator Bernie Sanders is the right man to lead this country.
Killer Mike
Certainly going back to 2008 during the primary, Secretary Clinton was subjected to various forms of sexism – overt, subtle – that were detrimental. Fortunately, Senator Obama was not subjected to something similar; the culture seemed to tolerate sexism and not racism. We ought not tolerate either.
David Brock
I’m running for senator because it’s time for a change.
John Sununu
Nowadays you don’t need to be a senator or a CEO or a celebrity to have a voice in the media, and if you happen to be a senator, a CEO or a celebrity, you have a thousand people each with their own respective audiences to hold you accountable.
Bernie Sanders
The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.
John Sherman Cooper
In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
Al Franken
I will be my own kind of senator using my own best judgment and my own experience.
Tina Smith
The John McCain tactic of praising Obama as a great American and great senator ‘with whom I disagree’ is a loser. You’ve got to call him out as what he is – a fraud and a disaster.
Roger Stone
As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan’s heritage and its economy.
Debbie Stabenow
In Congress, there are some who are unashamed to aspire to eloquence, even to scholarship, but the only state legislator I ever knew who would not join in the mispronounceciation of a word for the sake of camaraderie with her fellows was former State Senator and Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.
Molly Ivins
Ted Kennedy was not terribly effective when he first became a senator.
Michael Capuano
Senator Cruz has done well in Republican states.
Ken Cuccinelli
After 24 years in Washington, Senator Collins has become part of that broken system, putting special interests and her political party first. And Mainers know it and feel it.
Sara Gideon
While Senator Collins continues to put the Affordable Care Act – and protections for Mainers with pre-existing conditions – at risk, I’ve fought to protect and expand access to health care here in Maine.
Sara Gideon
Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.
William Weld
I’ve decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class – a leader with the courage to do what’s right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.
Tammy Baldwin
I’m an accountant. I’m a manufacturer from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, who stepped up to the plate, and now I’m a U.S. senator.
Ron Johnson
My grandfather was a popular senator, known as an advocate for fiscal responsibility, including the line-item veto for the president.
Dorothy Bush Koch
I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
Andrew Jackson
When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative’s or Senator’s offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff.
Joan Blades
I will not vote in favor of Senator Sessions’ nomination for attorney general.
Amy Klobuchar
Only in a nation like ours could someone like me, the s

Only in a nation like ours could someone like me, the scrappy son of a simple carpenter, grow up to become a simple senator.
Orrin Hatch
When I was a young man, I used to dream maybe someday I could be an alderman. Instead of that I became an attorney general, a senator, a vice president, a Democratic nominee.
Walter F. Mondale
I do not take my obligations as a senator lightly.
Tom Cotton
You become a senator not by being passive but by being active, and all of a sudden, we’ve got a whole group just deciding to sit on their palms.
Bill Cassidy
I’d like to be a U.S. senator from Tennessee.
Ralphie May
I called the book ‘The Senator Next Door,’ not ‘The President Next Door.’
Amy Klobuchar
In reality, Senator Shelby’s Financial Regulatory Improvement Act is nothing more than a wish list for the Wall Street bankers that fund his campaign.
Ron Crumpton
I’m focused, as you can tell, on 2014 and on doing my job as a senator.
Rob Portman
I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.
George McGovern
Even arch-isolationists, such as former President Herbert Hoover and Senator Robert Taft of Ohio – two of the most right-wing figures in the Republican Party – insisted on being called liberal.
Tom Reiss
It’s a sacrifice for me. It’s not really something I want to do. I don’t love the idea of being a U.S. senator; I love the idea of being a mother.
Wendy Long
I don’t disagree with Senator McCain when he talks about the earmark process.
Dick Durbin
Without a doubt, Senator Isakson cared deeply for Georgia, and he cared deeply for our country.
Raphael Warnock
Although he runs as an independent and caucuses with the Democrats, Senator Sanders is a socialist/Social Democrat who openly pines for European social democracy. Bravo to him for saying what he truly believes as opposed to so many other Democrats.
Will Cain
My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.
Herman Cain
The first time I met President Obama was 2006 in Baghdad. He was the senator from Illinois; it was a month before he actually ended up declaring. He had to come to Baghdad to kind of check that box, and I was the correspondent for ‘Newsweek’ at the time.
Michael Hastings
I came to Washington understanding what the Senate is capable of accomplishing and knowing that I’d have myriad opportunities as a senator to get things done.
Tina Smith
If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I’m happy to talk to him.
Fareed Zakaria
If not for food stamps, Medicaid, and various job programs, I would never have gone on to be the first in my family to go to college, the first black woman to represent my ward on the Cleveland City Council, and, ultimately, a State Senator.
Nina Turner
I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn’t matter if they’re Senator Clinton or whoever.
Cindy Sheehan
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
Here’s where I’m different from a senator. We pass continuing resolutions. We pass appropriations bills.
Kevin Cramer
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.
Thom Tillis
I applied to do a fellowship in Congress and I was accepted to be a legislative fellow, so I go to work on the personal staff of a senator. I got very lucky and got to work in the office of Senator John McCain, and it was a yearlong program.
Victor J. Glover
It brings me back to reality. The combine doesn’t care if you’re a senator or not. It breaks down whenever it wants to break down.
Jon Tester
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
Gore Vidal
It is truly appalling for Senator Mark Kirk to equate the Obama Administration’s diplomacy with Nazi appeasement. As a Jewish-American, I am offended.
Jan Schakowsky
I like some of the young guys like Senator Thune. He’s a guy that looks good. He’s very articulate, he’s very smart, and he truly is a public servant.
John Boozman