John Ensign Quotes

I love serving in the government. I love serving in the Senate.

It would be wonderful to be a member of the United States Senate.

It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate.

You could be a senior senator and have never managed more than a hundred people in your life.

When people say - 'Well, do you miss being a judge since you're in Congress,' I go - 'Only when I want people to sit down and shut up.'

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

I'm blessed to represent Florida in the United States Senate.

It's incredibly flattering to be a U.S. senator, which I want to stay at for a long time.

I came to Washington understanding what the Senate is capable of accomplishing and knowing that I'd have myriad opportunities as a senator to get things done.

I spent three years working at the White House and wanted to do something that wasn't about passing bills and resolutions.

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.

I can honestly say that being a United States Senator has been the honor of my life.

The best, most interesting years of my life were spent in government and politics.

[Warren] Harding didn't like being a Senator; he liked being in the Senate.

Being a member of Congress is a hard job but it's an uplifting job.

Congress is the great commanding theater of this nation, and the threshold to whatever department of office a man is qualified to enter.

I would rather have a full term in the Senate—a place in which I would feel more consciously able to discharge the duties required, and where there is more chance to make a reputation, and less danger of losing it than four years of the presidency.

There are two kinds of horses; there are show horses, and there are work horses, and you've got to decide in the United States Senate whether you want to be a show horse or a work horse.

Being a politician is a calling second only to being a minister.

I'm very happy where I am: I'm a senator from Ohio.

I love representing Minnesota in the Senate.

You can't go to Washington as a congressman and a senator and expect to make a difference all at once. You have to earn your way.