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What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we've got to do this, and I can understand why congressmen and senators would take their responsibility seriously, but I think in the end we'll get the money.

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.

Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents.

Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.

Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined.

Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.

It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.

It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot.

'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!