#senators

Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney. ↗

— John F. Kerry

#bush #kissinger #mitt #mitt romney #new

I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#best #could #democrat #i #i think

It's important right now to continue to have your patients contact their senators and their congresspeople to say we have a problem. We want you to help solve it, we want you to be involved. ↗

— Charlie Norwood

#continue #help #important #involved #now

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. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#been #catering #confirmation #democrats #entire

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. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#congressmen #country #democracy #forget #government

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#around #arrange #availability #i #i am

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

#call #guilty #know #not guilty #present

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.' ↗

— Evan Bayh

#because #current #determined #enough #filibuster

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. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#bush tax cuts #cuts #democratic #democrats #half

It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#important #incumbent #our #senators #supportive