“Ronald Reagan was one of our great foreign policy Presidents. He did not come from the Senate. He did not come from the foreign policy world. He was a governor, but his resolve, his clarity of purpose, his intelligence, his capacity to deal with complex issues and solve tough problems served him extremely well, and if I were elected President, I hope I could rely upon those same qualities.” IfsWorldWellsProblemPurposePresidentDealsQualityIssuesPolicyToughCapacityComplexesSolveClarityRelyResolveSenateForeign PolicyGovernorsRely UponClarity Of PurposeTough Problems Author:Mitt Romney
“You know a Senate race is obviously a much smaller deal than a presidential race. What I think makes a very hard job considerably easier when you're going to debate is if you have reminded yourself - or somebody has reminded you during the course of your campaign - that consistency is enormously important. That people don't want to hear you say one thing in one part of the state and another thing in another part of the state.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantImportantHardStatesJobsCoursesDealsRaceOne ThingEasierCampaignsDebatePresidentialSenateConsistency Author:Michael Bennet
“Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Bros., the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line of a movie magazine deal with the lives of leaders as if they were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.” PeopleIfsTodayHouseLinesWhiteDealsLeaderHollywoodMagazinesHillsWhite HouseSenateBrosBeverly HillsWarner Bros Book:At Large Source: At Large
“we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.” WellsTermAnswersDealsKnownFireHeardSubjectsOffersSpeechArgumentEmptyCongressAppearanceDebateFormerMannersDiscussionOpponentsAttributesSenateSpeakersImpressedRhetoricQuotationsWell Known Book:American diary, 1898 Source: American diary, 1898
“Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.” GovernmentDealsSenateShadyGovernment Work Author:Jon Tester
“I want to fall on the floor laughing - imagining Hillary Clinton working well in the Senate with everybody else! Oh, give me a break. I've already joked in print that they would need to build her a private cloakroom on the Mall. This is not a woman who has any ability to deal with the mass of humanity. She is the most arrogant, the most moralistic, the most sermonizing and annoying person on earth.” WantNeedsGivingWellsPersonsEarthHumanityFallAbilityDealsBreakLaughingMassGive MeClintonPrintAnnoyingSenateArrogantMallsMost Arrogant Author:Camille Paglia