#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

As a Democrat in this Senate, I felt aggrieved by some things the other side has done. I have no doubt they feel aggrieved about some of the things we have done. ↗

— Mark Pryor

#democrat #done #doubt #feel #felt

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#control #establishes #gavel #important #instrument

People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone. ↗

— Harry Reid

#chambers #had #i #know #manhood

I'd like to see that bipartisanship come back that we used to have in the House of Representatives, in the Clinton years. I think there's a possibility that the voters are going to send the message that everybody running - Congress, the Senate, the presidency - that they want us to come together. ↗

— Bill Richardson

#bipartisanship #clinton #come #congress #everybody

Prior to that I testified before the Senate subcommittee addressing mountaintop removal. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#before #i #mountaintop #prior #removal

The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more and more, we're finding the American people on one side, the ACLU and the troglodytes from the New York Times on the other, where they belong. ↗

— Peter King

#adopted #amendment #american #american people #belong

You have a Republican House, close numbers in the Senate, a Democratic president. If we're going to move forward at all as a country, we're going to have to do it by standing together. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#country #democratic #forward #going #house

You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#government #house #know #president #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