Top 1200 United States Senate Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the President of the United States is authorized to present, on behalf of the Congress, a gold medal of appropriate design to the family of the late Honorable Leo J. Ryan in recognition of his distinguished service as a Member of Congress and the fact of his untimely death by assassination while performing his responsibilities as a Member of the United States House of Representatives.

What I can do as the member of the United States Senate is try to do everything I can to keep America safe.

In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is.The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953 overthrew the nationalist government of Mossadegh in Iran and brought back the shah. The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians. The United States that is the supporter of Israel against the Palestinians.

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.

He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.

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.

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.

According to the old rules, Senator Jeff Sessions could not be confirmed by the United States Senate because in fact he wasn`t.

The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate.

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.

Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.

In 2010, there were 57 lawyers, zero manufacturers, and way too many career politicians in the United States Senate.

It is not nothing to ask someone holding an election certificate in the United States Senate to provide his or her vote.

It would be wonderful to be a member of the United States Senate.

The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use?

Germany is a capitalist state nurtured carefully and brought back to prosperity by the United States, and it is very loyal to the United States. I don't even think the Germans enjoy full sovereignty. There are some things which they cannot do if the United States doesn't wish them to do it.

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.

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.

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

I consider the United States Senate the greatest deliberative body in the world, and I respect the important role the Constitution affords it in the confirmation of our judges.

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 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.

If segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.

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.

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

I'm blessed to represent Florida in the United States Senate.

Israel controls the United States Senate.

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.

It's not often that a United States Senate seat comes open.

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

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

The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.

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

Canada has little pictures of us in its bedroom, right? Canada spends all of its time thinking about the United States, obsessing over the United States. It's unrequited love between Canada and the United States.

Tim Kaine can't point to a single accomplishment in the United States Senate for Virginia or Virginians.

I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.

Louisiana, as ceded by France to the United States, is made a part of the United States; its white inhabitants shall be citizens, and stand, as to their rights and obligations, on the same footing with other citizens of the United States, in analogous situations.

The United States will continue to be number one, and I do not see any country or group of countries taking the United States' place in providing global public goods that underpin security and prosperity. The United States functions as the world's de facto government.

The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament.

[Tom Cotton] is seen as a real rising star in the Republican Party. He`s the youngest member of the United States Senate, routinely described as an up and comer.

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.

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.

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.

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

I think that [Donald] Trump is brilliant to raise this issue. When my son, Gabriel, and his wife, Deb, was pregnant, I said, You got to come home. I want my grandson to be president of the United States. He has to be born in the United States.Now, a child of a citizen of the United States born abroad or born wheresoever is a citizen if that's - he or she so chooses. So there's no doubt but that Ted Cruz is a citizen of the United States.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

I love being in the United States Senate.

I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States? The vice president has two duties. One is to break a tie in case of a tie vote in the United States Senate... The other is to inquire daily as to the health of the president. Neither one of those are very challenging as compared to being able to live for a good part of the time in the state of Arizona.

If I am elected, God willing, to the United States Senate, I will be leading the charge for President Trump.

The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953 overthrew the nationalist government of Mossadegh in Iran and brought back the shah.

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.

Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas-where we all understood he wanted authority to act-but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens. I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused.

The Constitution makes very clear what the obligation of the United States Senate is and what the obligation of the president of the United States is. To allow a Supreme Court position to remain vacant for well over a year cuts against what I think the intentions of the framers are and what the traditions of the Senate and the executive are.

Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility.

The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and on the value of the dollar in exchange markets. The Nation can ill afford to allow such a result. The risks, the cost, the disruptions, and the incalculable damage lead me to but one conclusion: the Senate must pass this legislation before the Congress adjourns.

I have a very strong record on the Environment in the United States Senate.

I think it's a time to be sad about what's been done to the United States Senate, the greatest deliberative body in the world.