Top 55 Senators Quotes

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

Senators, in the end, must be elected.

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn’t have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.

Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.

A lot of the people in Northern California and parts of Oregon have decided that we are not on the same page as San Francisco and Portland and Los Angeles. I don’t know if six states is a solution because is Washington, D.C. and the rest of the country really going to give California 10 new senators?

There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators.

Guess what – I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.

The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that’s totally wiped out; I don’t think it really exists anymore.

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn’t have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.’

John McCain was one of the senators who voted against George Herbert Walker Bush’s disastrous break of his no new taxes pledge when he raised taxes in 1990. That’s really important. He’s a supply-sider. And he’s got supply siders like Phil Graham and Jack Kemp to vouch for that.

I do plan to be on the podium with President Clinton when she’s inaugurated in January 2017 – but I’m going to be sitting with the senators.

‘Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?’ No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.

The last thing you want is a group of senators who just lent you seven and a half billion dollars to sit back and go, ‘Look at these jerks and how they’re using taxpayer money.’

Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.

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.

I’m the daughter of one of the most long-standing senators in politics, and I have been given every opportunity that anyone could possibly dream of. I was given those opportunities as a result of the hard work from both sides of my family.

We get paid to do this work, and fellow senators need to do their jobs.

I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they’re on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Rock stars generally don’t last in the Senate, starting with John Kennedy. Too much work, too slow, too little juice. Getting something accomplished takes a remarkable amount of tedious work. Rock stars who become senators either run for something else or retire on the job. They certainly don’t make a mark.

Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. ‘Is it envy,’ you ask? I don’t know… I’ve had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who’s an ambassador… perhaps God doesn’t permit that much.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or… all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

I and many other senators, Republican and Democrat, have expressed our sincere and long-held intent that Congress must approve any nuclear deal with Iran for months.

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

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.

I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

I think this is a part of John McCain that a lot of people don’t know about, is that he took younger senators under his wing. And, in my case, I – he taught me so much about national security and foreign policy, even when we didn’t always agree. He took me four times with him to Iraq and Afghanistan.

I find it hard to believe that Senators or the American public will classify Sotomayor as unqualified, particularly given the thin credentials of many of our eighteenth and nineteenth century Supreme Court Justices.

I realize the voters elected President Obama in 2012, but they also, in 2014, elected enough Republican senators to gain a majority in the Senate, so we control the confirmation process. And these are two supposedly coequal branches of government involved in this filling of a Supreme Court vacancy.

Senators should not play politics by threatening filibusters and evaluating Judge Gorsuch based on what his policy preferences are or how he might come down on a specific case that may come before the Court.

I’ve done a whole lot of things. I’ve had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.

We need senators who have studied physics and representatives who understand ecology.

My grandfather was the general counsel for the Washington Senators, and my dad grew up on Ted Williams’ lap.

Blue slips enable home-state senators to ensure that the federal judges serving in their states are highly qualified.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

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

The NRA grades senators and representatives based on their votes on gun issues – and even on issues that have little-to-nothing to do with guns.

At the end of the day, Obamacare is bad for America. Washington, D.C., exempted themselves. U.S. senators still do not have to be on Obamacare.

Let me let you in on a secret. I do plan to be on the podium with President Clinton when she’s inaugurated in January 2017 – but I’m going to be sitting with the senators.

Rome had Senators too, that’s why it declined.

Justices are not politicians. They don’t run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.

I understand the significance of being one of 18 senators in Oklahoma history.

I had a personal email when I was in the Senate, as the vast majority of senators do. It was very convenient. I did all of my business on personal emails.

‘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.

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

I think the United States, whether you have a Democratic president or whether you have a Republican president, is bound by international law, whether some senators like it or not.

I’m not a professional politician. I’m a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.

It simply isn’t fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot.

I think the trend to move towards caucuses and conventions, whether to nominate senators, governors or presidential nominees, I think the move towards caucuses and conventions is a very bad one, and that our party should reward those states that spend the time and money to have primaries.