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the only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.


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KELLY JONES We have good reason to believe the Senate will (pass the bill). This is a bipartisan bill.
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MICHAEL MOORE If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll g...
BOB DOLE We don't believe the Senate can sustain a filibuster, ... Any Democrat that wants to vote against th...
DICK ARMEY We are all very pleased with the unanimous vote by the Senate.
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MIKE DEWINE Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New ...
LAURA BUSH As many members of the Senate as there are, there's that many different views of how you do offsets,...
JUDD GREGG When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies
EVERETT DIRKSEN took to the Senate floor to denounce the president's conduct as immoral and harmful because 'it send...
MONICA LEWINSKY In the bill that was introduced in the Senate, in the bill that I introduced along with some members...
PAT ROBERTS When the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee says that, you know you're going to get it.
JOE LIEBERMAN Grassley is a very good chairman, very fair, and he tries his very best to be bipartisan, ... But th...
JAY ROCKEFELLER He's got one of the best legal minds in the Senate,
SLADE GORTON There are very few times you can go to the Senate floor and save lives, ... We have it within our po...
MIKE DEWINE When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and sa...
GERALDINE FERRARO She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING I thought that the initiative that the Senate produced was very important and very effective,
ALAN GREENSPAN mount a national crusade against the senate elections.
MORGAN TSVANGIRAI Democrats are in open disarray in the Senate. This is not the type of fight you win by coming late t...
JONATHAN TURLEY One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body i...
BILL NELSON I think in the end, we'll have a trial, ... We will render a verdict, as the Senate has on 15 other ...
PHIL GRAMM I am proud that the Senate has come together to address the urgent need for comprehensive immigratio...
EDWARD KENNEDY To me, the central issues before the Senate is whether or not the Senate will allow President Bush t...
LINDSEY GRAHAM If you look at Reagan who had two [failed Supreme Court] nominees, who lost control of the Senate an...
KEN MEHLMAN The Senate and the House are at loggerheads, and it would be virtually impossible for the leaders of...
LARRY SABATO It is obvious that members of the Senate on both sides of the aisle really are troubled by the way t...
BARRY FRIEDMAN The bill ended up stalling on the Senate desk after senators closed their session early last week.
RICHARD STAPLER [Proponents -- mostly Democrats -- are threatening to tie up the Senate unless Lott schedules procee...
MITCH MCCONNELL I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to h...
MAX BAUCUS The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday mo...
PHIL DONAHUE Even a small city like ours will feel a major impact if this (bill) is passed in the Senate.
ROBERT GARCIA There has not been the cooperation that there apparently has been on the Senate side,
JANE HARMAN Are we going to demand that they come before the Senate Judiciary Committee and renounce their faith...
JEFF SESSIONS I think we're knocking on the door of a veto-proof margin in the Senate.
SEAN TIPTON I do not believe that John Roberts has met the burden of proof necessary to be confirmed by the Sena...
EDWARD KENNEDY I left Penney's in 1969 to join the Nixon administration and I didn't come to the Senate until 1992,...
ROBERT F. BENNETT If the Senate fails to act and move forward on those nominees,
SCOTT MCCLELLAN There's about six bills being looked at in the Senate that would change and put a deposit fee on the...
BILL WORREL It's good to have a new face [in the Senate] as opposed to someone who's already been around.
DON STAPLEY You know, I never have been a stagnant kind of individual. I've been in the Senate 22 years. I'm sti...
EDMUND S. MUSKIE [The six-month extension] is the best outcome we could possibly imagine. The Senate stood firm, and ...
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MICHAEL MOORE My preference is that we eliminate the Senate.
DALTON MCGUINTY The Senate president supports the bill. I think it's going to go.
CINDY DAVIDSMEYER This is one of the worst things the Senate has ever done. On the back of a cocktail napkin they have...
GITA GUTIERREZ It's mostly to emphasize that we're all on the same side, ... The university's faculty-elected repre...
ERIC ROBERTS The next signal has to come from the Senate president. We'll see if the Senate caucus wants to get T...
FRANK DEANER Women's place is in the House - and in the Senate
GLORIA SCHAFFER The difference between the two for me, fundamentally, is that the Senate and the governor want to do...
GEOFFREY SEGAL We're very happy the Senate chose to keep the full text of the amendment as the ballot question. It'...
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JAMES ADAMS A lot of different things go into the mix when determining whether or not Roberts is confirmed. The ...
JAMES MCCANN Judge Roberts deserves overwhelming bi-partisan confirmation by the Senate. Only those willing to ju...
JAN LARUE If you look at it, even with over five years in the Senate to make an impression on Florida voters, ...
JEFF SADOSKY Different majorities in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, as now looks possible, would be the ...
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JO WHITE If there is no avoiding a trial in the Senate, by stepping aside (Clinton could) spare our nation we...
ROBERT SCHULLER She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER [The president promised to work to eliminate the special education funding provision.] The Senate .....
HILLARY CLINTON I think the challenge to Republicans now is you have the House, you have the Senate, you have the Wh...
NEWT GINGRICH You can't say that the leftist Union has a majority to govern. We are neck and neck in the Senate, a...
ANDREA RONCHI Both of these senators managed the expectations game brilliantly. They laid low, they learned the Se...
SCOTT REED We will be prepared when the trial commences in the Senate to go forward with the evidence, to prese...
ASA HUTCHINSON If I were present in the Senate I would vote for ratification of the CWC [Chemical Weapons Conventio...
BOB DOLE [O]n the day after that happened, the beneficiary was George W. Bush. The Senate, the Congress unite...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN We commend Senators [Michael] Enzi and [Edward] Kennedy and their colleagues for their leadership in...
NATHAN DIAMENT Just admit it, Tim, you raised taxes, ... He broke ties in the Senate, folks. That was his only duty...
JERRY KILGORE We're going to send to the Senate not only the first lady of the land, but she will be the first lad...
PATRICK MOYNIHAN I commend the Senate president and the speaker on their leadership, ... I look forward to making Mel...
MITT ROMNEY When the Senate returns they will consider a number of options to change the system and better enfor...
RICH CHRISMER Now that the president has said he will nominate Judge Roberts as chief justice, the stakes are high...
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JOHN EDWARDS [Other Republicans echoed Specter's dismay.] I am disappointed that Gov. William Weld did not receiv...
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JOHN DEAN I firmly believe that to represent New York in the Senate you really need to have a great deal of kn...
RUDY GIULIANI The two things she's been doing since she got to the Senate is work hard and work with Republicans. ...
PHILIPPE REINES The Senate has a plan to address the public safety crisis created by a shortage of correctional offi...
MIKE MORGAN [But critics say the Senate bill goes overboard in its attempt to block frivolous suits.] It complet...
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EILEEN LARRABEE The battle fronts are the Supreme Court, the presidency, the Senate, the House, all the state legisl...
DEREK DAVIS I don't anticipate the Senate will leave it intact.
DAN COOPER The needs in this county, in this region, are so high, the Senate plan is close to addressing the ne...
DANA FENTON The Senate took the fine work Rep. May did in the House of Representatives and destroyed it.
DAN GROSSMAN He's worked very hard to try to overcome that ... (but) as a minority member of the Senate, of cours...
DAVID REBOVICH [In 1787, delegates to the constitutional convention determined that the Senate alone, and not the e...
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HAPPY FULFORD I think it's wonderful. The Senate showed their concerns for people.
ESSIE DEBONET He's in good position to backchannel with the Senate, being vice-chairman of the Commission on Appoi...
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JAIME CONTRERAS It's a vote in the Senate that we hope to have soon. We would hope that the bill is done and finishe...
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MARK PRYOR He could debate an issue more articulately than anyone I've seen in my 22 years in the Senate.
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JONATHAN EDWARDS I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ...
JONATHAN SWIFT Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...
JONATHAN SWIFT I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
JONATHAN GASH Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positi...
JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.
JONATHAN SWIFT Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
JONATHAN SWIFT Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
JONATHAN LARSON Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFT There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never ...
JONATHAN RABAN What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I ...
JONATHAN KATZ