Senators Quotes

(On Hillary Clinton) A lot of the stuff people say about her, I hear it and my stomach falls because it`s so sexist. You ask people why they don`t like her and it`s because her husband cheated on her! That was obviously not her choice. She`s so much more polished and experienced than anyone else. Last night, a friend, a social worker in L.A. who works with underprivileged kids, was saying how these girls who have never been interested in politics before are so excited that a woman might be president. I mean, look how many women are in government...Hillary`s one of, what, (a handful of) female senators? I also like Obama. I even like McCain. I disagree with his war stance -- which is a really big deal -- but I think he`s a very moral person. I met him and Hillary on the same day, actually, when I went to Washington with Finca (a nonprofit that gives loans to businesswomen in developing countries). Hillary was by far the smartest person I met that day. Just totally focused, and knew more about the issues than anyone else, and was so able to go from one thing to the other.

- Natalie Portman

(1987) "Robert Bork wants to be a Supreme Court justice. But the record shows he has a strange idea of what justice is. He defended poll taxes and literacy tests, which kept many Americans from voting. He opposed the civil rights law that ended `whites only` signs at lunch counters. He doesn`t believe the Constitution protects your privacy. Please urge your senators to vote against the Bork nomination. Because, if Robert Bork wins a seat on the Supreme Court, it will be for life. His life . . . and yours."

- Gregory Peck

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

- Jay Leno

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

Have faith in the process, and pray for our United States Senators, that they`ll act with civility and move this process along as it should be moved.

- Rod Parsley

The difference in the game was the pressure our guards put on their guards. It looked like (the Senators) were having trouble getting into their offense.

- Shane Foster

I was real surprised how much we were able to disrupt them with our defense. That`s (the Senators) a real good team over there.

- Shane Foster

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

- Will Rogers

There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators.

- Will Rogers

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

At least five senators called in and several are very active in Christian organizations on campus.

- Eric Norris

If you look at where presidents come from, they`re former governors or senators.

- Eleanor Clift

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

- Barbara Boxer

we in the civil rights community need to hold the senators accountable, all the senators, for their vote on any nominee. And we need to ask them, ... what are you looking for in a judge and where do you draw the line and at what point will you step up and do the right thing?

- Stephanie Jones

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

- Tom Daschle

Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.

- Tom Daschle

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.

- Alan Hargrave

It simply isn`t fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot.

- Alan Uke

Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents.

- Alisa Gravitz

Justices are not politicians. They don`t run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.

- Alisa Gravitz

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.

- Alison O'Connor

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.

- Allen Alley

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

- Amber Chia

No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.

- Amjad Hussain

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

- Amy Alcott

Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we`ve got to do this, and I can understand why congressmen and senators would take their responsibility seriously, but I think in the end we`ll get the money.

- Amy Baker

going to pass up an opportunity this Saturday to parade congressman and senators in front of hundreds of thousands of men. So there is no evidence of this political connection.

- Andy Parker

We have a representative democracy and the way senators vote on legislation or other matters is the most-fundamental act in representing people,

- Anna Smashnova

Cheating is cheating. Enforce the rules or don`t have them. It`s up to (Selig), I guess. He`s getting a lot of pressure from the senators.

- Ariya Tafolla

Cancer is the number one health concern of Americans today. Lobby Day is about bringing that issue to the forefront on a state level. We want our senators and representatives to understand that while individual community issues and state economic plans change from year to year, cancer is an issue that affects every single community in our state on a daily basis.

- Aurelian Lis

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

- Jay Leno

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

- Will Rogers

The Senate and the country need Senators of courage who are prepared to make their mark on history by standing with past profiles in courage, and defending not party, not partisanship, but defending principle and democracy itself.

- Senator John Kerry