Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter

It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down.

Barbara Mikulski
Barbara Mikulski

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.

Catherine Cortez-Masto
Catherine Cortez-Masto

We know that the United States Senate has passed comprehensive immigration reform. We know it can happen. And that, to me, is what we need to do. We have a broken immigration system. And I say this because we are a country that has always opened our doors. That's who we are.

Catherine Cortez-Masto
Catherine Cortez-Masto

We need to do a better job of mentorships and role models to bring other young women along so that there's more women in our boardrooms, there's more women here in the United States Senate and in Congress. I think there's an important role for women to play.

Christine Todd Whitman
Christine Todd Whitman

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.

Chuck Grassley
Chuck Grassley

The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.

Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill

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.

Corey Stewart
Corey Stewart

Tim Kaine can't point to a single accomplishment in the United States Senate for Virginia or Virginians.

Cory Booker
Cory Booker

The Constitution makes very clear what the obligation of the United States Senate is and what the obligation of the president of the United States is. To allow a Supreme Court position to remain vacant for well over a year cuts against what I think the intentions of the framers are and what the traditions of the Senate and the executive are.

Cory Booker
Cory Booker

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