I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments.

- Colleen Hanabusa

It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.

- George Packer

I was entirely comfortable reaching across the Senate aisle to work with Democrats.

- Edward Brooke

When I arrived in the Senate, the moderate so-called Rockefeller Republicans held the balance of power.

- Edward Brooke

When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.

- Everett Dirksen

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.

- Don Nickles

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

- David Remnick

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

- Desi Arnaz

I'm no one's pet, and I intend to be an independent voice in the U.S. Senate.

- Chris Coons

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.

- Christine Todd Whitman

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

- Alexander Pope

You know, there were 29 Democratic votes for censure in the Senate. And if the Republicans had any sense, they would have censured him before the '98 midterm election, and they would have won the election.

- Chris Matthews

I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.

- Carol Moseley Braun

I'm a results-oriented person and my Senate record shows that.

- Carol Moseley Braun

Every member of the Senate has a constitutional duty to follow the Constitution and to uphold the Constitution.

- Cory Gardner

When I do my hiring in the United States Senate, I look at issues of diversity.

- Cory Booker

There are times where the dysfunction in the Senate just goes too far.

- Bob Corker

If you read the Senate rules, there are provisions where the Senate parliamentarian can be overridden.

- Bill Flores

Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.

- Bernie Sanders

There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day!

- Arlen Specter