#nato

Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid! ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#buy #day #i #line #me

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#call #conservative #had #head #i

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. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#comes #discuss #how #judges #judicial

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#before #classes #did #doctors #guinea

Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year. ↗

— Bill Weld

#earning #fairness #income #income tax #increase

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. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#any #appoint #consent #constitution #does

In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion. ↗

— John Hume

#class #controlled #difficult #discriminatory #districts

NATO has been a thread throughout my life. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#life #my life #nato #thread #throughout

Far be it from me to denigrate Senator McCain's advice on vice presidential nominees. ↗

— David Axelrod

#denigrate #far #mccain #me #nominees

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. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#continually #debate #filibuster #issue #just