#senate

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#arise #because #body #enact #execute

I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me. ↗

— Ted Stevens

#asking #giving #guilty #i #i am

My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#affairs #army #chairman #father-in-law #fond

I was in the Minnesota state Senate from 2000 until 2006. In 2006, I was urged to run for Congress, I did. And I've been here ever since. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#congress #did #ever #here #i

The bill then says if the Senate does not act, then H.R. 1 (the House-passed bill that cuts $61 billion) will be the law of the land. In addition to that, it says that if all else fails, and the Senate brings about a shutdown, then members should not get their pay. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#act #addition #bill #billion #brings

The Senate is an unknowing world. ↗

— Robert Caro

#world

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

I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing. ↗

— Ed Case

#chance #country #good #good chance #hawaii

I didn't get to the Senate by accident. ↗

— John Edwards

#get #i #senate

We can move America forward with a strong middle class. We can move America forward with a strong Democratic majority in the Senate. And together we can move America forward with Barack Obama in the White House. ↗

— Harry Reid

#barack #barack obama #class #democratic #forward