Senator Quotes

• Discrimination and bigotry have no place in our society, and I believe Senator (Rick) Santorum's unfortunate remarks undermine Republican principles of inclusion and opportunity.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Opportunity

• I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • United States
  • Supporters
  • Activists

• Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?

  

  Walt Disney
  • Why
  • King
  • Governor

• A message to progressives: By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Message
  • Senator
  • Joe Lieberman

• McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Person
  • Senator
  • Wisconsin

• By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Money
  • Senator
  • Minimum Wage

• But I do know this: My father was on Omaha Beach 55 years ago. If you want to know how he would feel if he were here today, he wouldn't fight -- no one fought for one side of this case or the other. He fought as all those did for our country and our Constitution. And as long as each of us -- manager, president's counsel, senator -- does his or her constitutional duty, those who fought for their country will be proud,

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Long
  • Country
  • Father

• Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he's swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as 'dancing with the stars.' And we had this great rock 'n' roll fund raiser.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Great
  • Rock
  • Rock N Roll

• Senator Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who I think can do great things for our country.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Great
  • Country
  • Barack Obama

• At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • History
  • House
  • Presidential

• A U.S. Senator should have the same right as a member of the Knesset...to disagree with any government when its actions may not be in the United States' interest.

  

  Charles H. Percy
  • May
  • Member
  • Knesset

• I was appalled....I hope that our senators will be responsive to our concerns.

  

  Ashley Johnson
  • Hope
  • Concerns
  • Responsive

• The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was handed me a few days since by Senator Sumner. Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that, while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Children
  • Persons

• I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Washington
  • Thinker
  • Senator

• I knew of Senator [George] Mitchell because he was very close friends with who was soon to be the senior senator, Paul Sarbanes. Paul Sarbanes and George Mitchell were kind of pals together.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Friends
  • Together
  • Senior

• Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch.

  

  Mark Davis
  • Imagine
  • Female
  • Reacting

• Donald Trump always used to say, "Oh, what have you been doing for 30 years?" And I always found that kind of odd because you could Google it and find out. And, you know, I've been a lawyer and I've been a First Lady and I've been a senator and I've been secretary of state.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Donald Trump
  • First Lady
  • Secretary of state

• I have really got it into my head to try to be United States Senator, and, if I could have your support, my chances would be reasonably good. But I know, and acknowledge, that you have as just claims to the place as I have; and therefore I cannot ask you to yield to me, if you are thinking of becoming a candidate, yourself. If, however, you are not, then I should like to be remembered affectionately by you; and also to have you make a mark for me with the Anti-Nebraska members down your way.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Chances
  • Acknowledge
  • Senator

• Men in power always seem to get involved in sex scandals, but women don't even have a word for 'male bimbo.' Except maybe 'senator.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• Senator John Kerry is in trouble for making a joke about soldiers being uneducated. As a result, Kerry promised to stop making jokes and stick to boring people.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Stop
  • John Kerry

• Carolyn Maloney identifies with the possibility of being raped, that's why she hung in there for the Debbie Smith Bill. So it - it's essential that in New York, if we can't get a prominent woman in New York, where can we? I mean there's so many states that have never even had a woman senator. We're still on our first this and our first that.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Why
  • She
  • Carolyne Maloney

• I also point out that the Democrat senator from Maryland, called the Tea Party, teabaggers.

  

  Eric Bolling
  • Democrat
  • Senator
  • Tea Party

• I have said that I'm not running and I'm having a great time being pres — being a first-term senator.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Senator

• I still have that new senator smell.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Senator

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