Quotes having the keyword Senate
Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.
by Leverett Saltonstall (Politician, American , born in 1892) keywords: colleagues, committee, gone, hearings, home, long, many, napping, packed, senate, should, stayed, through, too , up When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
by Charles de Secondat (Philosopher, French , born in 1689) keywords: apprehensions, arise, because, body, enact, execute, executive, laws, legislative, lest, liberty, magistrates, manner, may, monarch, person, powers, same, senate, should, them, tyrannical , united It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.
by Jay Alan Sekulow (Lawyer, American , born in 1956) keywords: assume, begins, call, chief, confirm, court, delay, duties, full, his, john, justice, matter, move, new, now, responsibilities, roberts, senate, supreme, swiftly, term, up, weeks , without I hope that as the Senate and the American people learn more about me they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
by Sonia Sotomayor (Judge, American , born in 1954) keywords: am, american, been, blessed, experiences, extraordinary, hope, learn, more, opportunities, ordinary, person, see, senate , will I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.
by Arlen Specter (Politician, American , born in 1930) keywords: am, around, arrange, availability, must, pleased, president, running, say, schedule, senate , senators We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.
by Bart Stupak (Politician, American , born in 1952) keywords: abortion, abortions, against, believe, dollar, every, federal, fund, include, language, law, month, out, pay, per, plus, provides, reproductive, rights, saying, senate, subsidies, take, totally, where , which My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.
by Stuart Symington (Businessman, American , born in 1901) keywords: administrations, affairs, army, chairman, father-in-law, fond, knew, latter, lot, military, once, part, senate , wilson For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.
by Fred Thompson (Politician, American , born in 1942) keywords: american, before, come, committee, even, history, judiciary, long, senate, something, time, until , up I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.
by Tiberius (Statesman , Roman) keywords: acts, always, am, any, beware, binding, change, consistent, itself, long, man, might, never, precedent, sake, senate, senses, shall, should, since, some, suffer, support, through , ways He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.
by Margaret Truman (Novelist, American , born in 1924) keywords: belonging, club, exclusive, most, pride, senate, states, took, united , world I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.
by Benjamin F. Wade (Politician, American , born in 1800) keywords: any, chamber, compromise, fall, here, make, may, men, never, senate, such , will All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
by Robert Welchkeywords: almost, alone, building, committee, congressional, dry, forgotten, hearing, office, pages, reading, report, room, senate, unpublished , washington Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
by Orson Welles (Actor, American , born in 1915) keywords: depend, donald, duck, election, politicians, popularity, scale, seats, senate, should, take , would To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.
by Christine Todd Whitman (Politician, American , born in 1946) keywords: al, bill, clinton, congress, down, first, gore, had, idea, into, kyoto, nothing, perspective, protocol, put, senate, some, states, taken, united, up , voted I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.
by John Sharp Williams (Politician, American , born in 1854) keywords: another, bay, cynical, dog, grown, listen, long, may, moon, rather, senate, service, six, sometimes, stay, tendency, than, think , years
