#senate

The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#hereafter #may #nation #national #prosperity

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts. ↗

— Don Nickles

#districts #northern #oklahoma #part #senate

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change. ↗

— Tiberius

#always #am #any #beware #binding

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery. ↗

— Colin Powell

#about #argued #congress #court #deal

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

— Will Rogers

#closes #i #i can #investigation #opens

My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#label #party #really #regardless #senate

There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day! ↗

— Arlen Specter

#conspiracies #day #floor #over #senate

I'm a results-oriented person and my Senate record shows that. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#person #record #senate #shows

But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here. ↗

— Preston Brooks

#breach #committed #had #here #house

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#believe #cuts #democratic #democratic leaders #leaders