#united states senate

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

The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate. ↗

— Charles Grassley

#bottom #bottom line #elected #line #lot

The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is...I want to win a Nobel Peace prize. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#explain #give #give me #here #honor

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed. ↗

— George Allen

#apology #failure #formal #heartfelt #history

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control. ↗

— Jeff Flake

#bring #center #control #country #crisis

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it. ↗

— Harry Reid

#common #common ground #compromise #even #extremists

To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing. ↗

— Christine Todd Whitman

#al gore #bill #bill clinton #clinton #congress

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#fortunately #his #hundred #kerry #matters

I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate. ↗

— John Thune

#america #best #feel #fight #future

I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate. ↗

— Robert Torricelli

#i #loss #majority #responsible #senate