#senate

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#his #joe #like #mccarthy #senate

In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead. ↗

— Richard Burr

#ahead #aisle #cannot #challenges #forward

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party. ↗

— Robert Caro

#believed #could #everyone #four #his

I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either the House or Senate Acts. ↗

— John Conyers

#before #being #bill #conference #cut

At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#because #bureau #came #certain #communicating

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#due #fast #find #friends #his

The Tea Party has an important voice in the country and now they have a voice in the U.S. Senate. ↗

— Mike Lee

#important #now #party #senate #tea

I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#defeated #democrat #earmarks #i #i think

When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#because #beliefs #compromises #did #different

I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#been #bit #delusions #dies #down