Luther Strange Quotes

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?

I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.

Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.

Anyone who works in the Senate is often in doubt as to the will of the Senate.

Seniority actually means something in the Senate.

The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely.

We never said that we don't have faith in Parliament. We have great respect for Parliament.

The Senate is where the issues are, and most people there are career politicians.

The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.

We've seen filibusters of bills and nominations that ultimately passed with 90 or more votes. Why filibuster something that has that kind of support? Just to slow down the process and keep the Senate from working.

…the Senate, a small body of egos…

Newspaper-men as a rule had no great respect for the lower House; Senators had less; and Cabinet officers had none at all.

Is it best to put the pseudo-aristoi (of wealth and birth) into a separate chamber of legislation, where they may be hindered from doing mischief by their coordinate branches, and where, also, they may be a protection to wealth against the agrarian and plundering enterprises of the majority of the people? I think that to give them power in order to prevent them from doing mischief is arming them for it, and increasing instead of remedying the evil. For if the coordinate branches can arrest their action, so may they that of the coordinates. Mischief may be done negatively as well as positively... Nor do I believe them necessary to protect the wealthy; because enough of these will find their way into every branch of the legislation to protect themselves

You run Washington DC though the House. The Senate gets in the way. The President gets in the way.

Senate: A body of elderly gentlemen charge with high duties and misdemeanors.

The Senate's role is to advise and consent. Very little advice has been sought and consent has thus been a problem.

We demand that the House of Representatives shall again become a deliberative body, controlled by the majority of the people's Representatives and not be the Speaker ...

Senators here were elected to the Senate and not to the caucus ... great questions of this sort should be debated in public and decided in public.

Parliament is a grand inquest which has the right to inquire into anything and everything.

The leaders of the Senate ... have no power delegated to them except on the basis of courtesy, accommodation, and a sense of responsibility.

The Vice President breaks ties in the Senate. In our 200 years of history there have been about 200 ties broken so you can see what an important job it is.

No check is necessary on a Legislature composed as the national Legislature would be, with two branches—an upper and a lower House.

Each house may punish, by imprisonment during their session, any person not a member, who shall be guilty of disrespect to the house, by any disorderly or contemptuous behavior in their presence; provided that such imprisonment shall not; at one time, exceed twenty-four hours.