Top 267 Senators Quotes & Sayings

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

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

The waiters in France could all be senators in the US.

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

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

We have had this happen in the past, right in Colombia: there were amnesties for everybody, guerrilla members were elected mayors, senators. Today there are senators who are - who were previously guerrillas.

I am the exception to the rule that all senators see themselves in the Oval Office.

Let's cause some senators distress.

If there were an ounce of courage in this body I would be joined by other senators… saying they will not tolerate this.

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

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

Senators, in the end, must be elected.

Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

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

That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

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

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.

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

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

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

The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.

There's no good reason that reliably liberal states should be electing senators as friendly to Wall Street as Cory Booker.

I haven't had senators advocating for me.

The Senate was the equivalent of an aristocracy at the beginning. Senators were not even elected; they were appointed in the early days. Then that changed, and senators did become elected. But the Senate is designed to slow down out-of-control, madcap activity elsewhere in the legislative branch (i.e., in the House), and the 60-vote rule was part of that.

Cannibals are devouring senators.

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

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

Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.

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

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?

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.

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

I would have never guessed I have, like, senators reposting me.

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

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

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

I don't think congressmen and senators ought to be getting pensions when nobody else does.

A lot of senators are so worried about convention and how they look that they wouldn't let their hair down if they had any.

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

It is my hope that as South Carolina senators, that we will stand up for what is best and good about our state.

On 'Face The Nation,' we can have extended conversations with the president and senators and you need more than just a three minute segment.

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

It sure did kick up some excitement in the Senate when one Senator called the other Senators 'sons of Wild jackasses.' Well, if you thought it made the Senators hot, you wait till you see what happens when the jackasses hear how they have been slandered.

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.'

We've seen senators like Ted Cruz before. The historical comparison most commonly invoked involves Joe McCarthy, whose scurrilous red-baiting crusade in the early 1950s shattered the careers of innocent public servants and alienated McCarthy from his fellow senators, but also made him a folk hero on the right. Jesse Helms comes to mind too.

Democratic senators are more scared of their base than they are of the voters.

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.

The senators know it's important to win statewide to have Hispanics and other immigrant populations supporting them.

It is not up to the senators to determine whether an NGO is bogus or not

Senators don't really provide good gossip - until they do, and then it's an A1 story and they're out of a job.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

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

Senators, representatives too often, we hear from our base, don't talk to the other side, don't with work with them.

A senator got up today in Congress and called his fellow senators sons of wild jackasses. Now, if you think the senators were hot, imagine how the jackasses must feel.

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

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

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

These are basic, nonpartisan, non-ideological questions. How many United States senators are there... who was the first president.