“Well, we have the leverage in the sense that we supply all the wherewithal...or a major part of the wherewithal to finance or to pay for everything Israel does. We don't have any leverage in the sense that Israel controls the Senate. The Senate is at least...a subservient, in my opinion, much too much. We should be more concerned about the United States' interest, rather than doing the bidding of Israel. This is a most unusual development.” ShouldWellsDoeStatesInterestUnitedPayOpinionUnited StatesToo MuchDevelopmentMajorsConcernedJewIsraelFinanceUnusualSenateBiddingSubservient Author:J. William Fulbright
“The great majority of the Senate of the United States...somewhere around 80 percent...are completely in support of Israel, anything Israel wants. This has been demonstrated time and again, and this has made it difficult.” WantHas BeensMadeStatesDifficultUnitedUnited StatesSupportPercentMajorityJewIsraelMade ItSenate Author:J. William Fulbright
“The Frankenstein of Communism is the product of the Jewish mind, and was turned loose upon the world by the son of a Rabbi, Karl Marx, in the hopes of destroying Christian civilization - as well as others. The testimony given before the Senate of the United States which is take from the many pages of the Overman Report, reveals beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jewish bankers financed the Russian Revolution.” WorldMindWellsStatesChristianGivenUnitedUnited StatesDoubtSonProductsRevolutionCivilizationPagesShadowJewCommunismReportsDestroyingSenateTestimonyBankersRabbiRussian Revolution Author:Kenneth Goff
“I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.” FeelsStatesAmericaFightingUnitedUnited StatesSenateTrenches Author:John Thune
“Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it's suddenly their campaign platform.” PeopleFirstsStatesUnitedTalkingClassUnited StatesFolksCampaignsBunchInequalitySenatePlatformsPreachingWarfareClass Warfare Author:Barack Obama
“When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.” PeopleMadeIdeasDifferentStatesHappensFatherBeliefRealizingUnitedUnited StatesGeniusCompromiseMakeupSenateFoundingOur Founding FathersDifferent Ideas Author:Claire McCaskill
“I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.” StatesLossUnitedUnited StatesResponsibleMajorityDemocraticSenateBeing Responsible Author:Robert Torricelli
“The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesRemainsSenate Author:Robert Torricelli
“I've got the best job in the world being a senator from the United States, a senator from South Carolina in the United States Senate, representing South Carolina in the United States Senate is a dream job for me, but the world is literally falling apart. And we can't get anything done here at home. So that drives my thinking more than anything else.” ThinkingWorldStatesDoneHomeDreamJobsFallUnitedUnited StatesSouthSenateSenatorsFalling ApartRepresentingCarolinaBest JobSouth CarolinaDream Job Author:Lindsey Graham
“If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.” IfsStatesHouseWhiteUnitedUnited StatesBalanceRepublicanCongressChecksWhite HouseSenate Author:Patty Murray
“It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and the Senate, or the caucus of the party which happens to be in the majority, the absolute dictator of the financial and business affairs of this country. This scheme surpasses all the centralism and all the Caesarism that were ever charged upon the Republican party in the wildest days of the war or in the events growing out of the war.” WarCountryStatesHappensHouseUnitedPartyUnited StatesGrowingEventsRepublicanPaperAbsolutesMajorityAffairFinancialSenateRepresentativesDictatorSchemesRepublican PartyTreasuryHouse Of RepresentativesCaucusPaper Money Author:James A. Garfield
“The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and on the value of the dollar in exchange markets. The Nation can ill afford to allow such a result. The risks, the cost, the disruptions, and the incalculable damage lead me to but one conclusion: the Senate must pass this legislation before the Congress adjourns.” StatesValuesNationsUnitedResultsUnited StatesImpossibleRiskEffectsSeriousCostConsequenceDollarsFinancialCongressIllCreditConclusionDamageSenateContemplatingLegislationDefaultDisruptionLeading MeFinancial Markets Author:Ronald Reagan
“We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president's acts declared unconstitutional.” StatesPresidentUnitedViewsUnited StatesCongressStatementsReviewsSenateSubmitLegislationJudicialSigningUnconstitutionalJudicial Review Author:Arlen Specter
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the President of the United States is authorized to present, on behalf of the Congress, a gold medal of appropriate design to the family of the late Honorable Leo J. Ryan in recognition of his distinguished service as a Member of Congress and the fact of his untimely death by assassination while performing his responsibilities as a Member of the United States House of Representatives.” StatesFactsAmericaHousePresidentUnitedResponsibilityUnited StatesDesignMembersLateGoldCongressRecognitionPerformingAppropriateSenateRepresentativesUnited States Of AmericaHonorableBehalfMedalDistinguishedAssassinationGold MedalsHouse Of RepresentativesUntimely Death Author:Leo Ryan
“Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United States Senate would actually ratify a bad treaty, anything called for under the treaty would require legislation passed through both houses.” IfsGivingStatesHouseUnitedUnited StatesFarmsSenateLegislationTreatiesKyotoKyoto Protocol Author:Thomas Schelling
“I've been a strong supporter of public financing my whole career. I'm the first guy to introduce a public financing bill to the United States Senate in 1973.” FirstsStatesWholeGuyStrongUnitedCareersUnited StatesBillsSenateIntroducingSupporterFinancing Author:Joe Biden
“If passed by the U.N. and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the U.N. Small Arms Treaty would almost certainly force the United States to... create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.” IfsStatesForceUnitedUnited StatesStageArmsGunInternationalScalesSettingSettingsSenateTreaties Author:Paul Broun
“I worry that the Senate is working to consider a series of little-noticed provisions in comprehensive immigration reform that may provide a pathway to a national ID card for all individuals present in the United States - citizens and noncitizens.” MayLittlesStatesIndividualUnitedWorryUnited StatesCitizensSeriesImmigrationCardsReformSenateProvisionComprehensivePathwaysImmigration Reform Author:Rand Paul
“Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.” Has BeensStatesUnitedUnited StatesPrivilegeServingSenate Author:Dean Heller
“In the United States Senate, one of the things I observed in the early days - and it's still used - and that is that you take someone's argument and then you misrepresent it and misstate and disagree with it. And it's very effective. I've done it myself a number of times. But eventually, eventually people catch on.” PeopleStillsStatesDoneUsedFreedomUnitedNumbersLibertyUnited StatesArgumentDisagreeSenate Author:Edward Kennedy
“I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.” PeopleStatesRealityWould BeDiesPoliticsLeadershipWorkWalksForgetUnitedWatchesUnited StatesComedyImagineHuman NaturePolicyRiversAskingIndividualityIdeologyBoredVotingSenateAmendmentsDiplomacyChamberForget ItCivilityBangingWatch MeBored To Death Author:Chris Christie
“The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the Senate of the United States might possibly improve its manners. Perhaps in our desire for simplicity, absence of title, or badge of office we may have thrown over too much.” MayMadeStatesGovernmentMightDesireHouseUnitedRoomsLordUnited StatesToo MuchSceneQuietOfficeDignitySimplicityArchitectureAbsenceMannersTitlesAcknowledgeThrownSenateMagnificentReposeBadgesHouse Of Lords Author:M. E. W. Sherwood
“I do think the most important thing we need in leadership in our country, not just in the presidency but in the United States Senate, are people that have a clear vision of what the role of government should be in our lives and what the role of America should be in the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsShouldImportantCountryStatesGovernmentAmericaUnitedVisionRolesUnited StatesClearOur LivesImportant ThingsOur CountrySenatePresidencyClear VisionRole Of Government Author:Marco Rubio
“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.” StatesTodayActionUnitedUnited StatesNeededOffersVictimSenateApologyFormalHeartfeltLynching Author:George Allen
“I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.” PeopleThinkingImportantStatesPoliticalProcessUnitedUnited StatesMembersOrdinaryContactHillsSenateEnd TimesEngagingOrdinary PeopleSpend TimeCapitolCapitol Hill Author:Bernie Sanders
“We have huge national security issues in this country, and the United States Senate ought to be pushing President [Barack] Obama towards the proper policies that right now are a complete disaster based on his policies.” CountryStatesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesIssuesSecurityPolicyHugeOughtRight NowDisasterBarackPushingSenateNational SecurityPresident Barack Obama Author:Jeb Bush
“Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.” ShouldKindSelfStatesEnoughCharacterBigsAbleUnitedUnited StatesCriticismSenateOutsidersDishesSelf CriticismAppraisal Author:Margaret Chase Smith