Zitat des Tages über Senat der Vereinigten Staaten / United States Senate:
He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.
I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate.
In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.
We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it.
It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.
Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
If the notion on this is we're going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th least senior person in there and be polite, and somewhere in their fourth or fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody cares about, don't vote for me.
Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.
Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.
Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.
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.
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.
It would be wonderful to be a member of the United States Senate.
I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.
1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six to the United States Senate.
I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.
The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.
Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.
When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support... He is the right person for the job.
In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.
My fervent expectation is that sooner rather than later, the United States Senate will more closely reflect the rich diversity of this great country.
Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.
In 2010, there were 57 lawyers, zero manufacturers, and way too many career politicians in the United States Senate.
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.
The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is... I want to win a Nobel Peace prize.
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.
The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.
The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.
I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.
I want to do my part in fighting for America's future. That's why I have decided to run for the United States Senate.
It is not nothing to ask someone holding an election certificate in the United States Senate to provide his or her vote.
It is a privilege to serve the country in the United States Senate and serve the people of New Hampshire. I wake up every day with a sense of purpose.
I consider the United States Senate the greatest deliberative body in the world, and I respect the important role the Constitution affords it in the confirmation of our judges.