Senate Politics Quotes

I certainly want to be the whip, and that's an election every two years in the Senate Democratic caucus.

The Secretary of State exists only to recognize the existence of a world which Congress would rather ignore ... Since the first day the Senate existed, it has always intrigued against the Secretary of State ...

If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I think we've taken it to an art form.

No one's going to admit they're in favor of adulterers, although it may not be a group unfamiliar to the Senate. There have been some remarkably lecherous people in the Senate over the years.

It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be US Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate.

Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.

When I first came to the Senate, people in both parties went out of their way to have personal relationships.

We in the Senate refer to Sen. Gillibrand as the hottest member.

When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn in, he or she is told what their dues are - how much they are expected to raise for the party for the next election. It's worse in the Senate. It turns the whole place into a money machine.

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

The attitude of the Senate toward public affairs makes all serious negotiations impossible.

I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.

Senator Obama and I had been on the same side of many fights, and we had worked together on the issue that is most urgent to me - comprehensive immigration reform.

I promise to fight against any attempts to undermine Roe v. Wade in the Senate.

If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama.

In the U.S. Senate, I'll fight discrimination everywhere it exists.

I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments.

It shouldn't take a constitutional crisis or an attack on the nation to create honest dialogue in the Senate.

In the 13 months I've been in the Senate, it has become apparent to me the single thing that Republican politicians hate and fear the most, and that is when they're forced to tell the truth. It makes their heads explode.

[A] Senator who wants to stir up trouble ... can do so by introducing on the floor amendments which he was duty bound to present in committee. But presentation in committee makes no headlines.

The U. S. Senate rejects multilateral treaties as if it were a sport. Some it rejects outright… Others it rejects through inaction: dozens of treaties are pending before the Senate.

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

Jon Kyl did a really good job of presenting a case and moving issues. John McCain probably is one of the more effective legislators, getting things on through the process. I always thought, too - and this may seem kind of odd - Richard Shelby was just an effective guy a lot of times at stopping things.