#senate

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

I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate... it's too slow for me. ↗

— Chuck Robb

#governor #i #made #make #me

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

Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General. ↗

— Daniel Inouye

#attorney general #doubts #failure #fitness #general

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative. ↗

— Eugene McCarthy

#honor #imperative #last #primitive #senate

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground. ↗

— Mark Pryor

#clean up #common #common ground #ground #politics

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

In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision. ↗

— Karl Rove

#days #decision #fate #first #hands