Senators Quotes

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

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.

Let's cause some senators distress.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

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.

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.

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

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

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.

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.

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.'

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

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

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

Cannibals are devouring senators.

No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.

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

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

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

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?

I believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it.

Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we've got to do this, and I can understand why congressmen and senators would take their responsibility seriously, but I think in the end we'll get the money.

Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60.

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

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