Dan Webster Quotes

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.

I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

…the Senate, a small body of egos…

I'm a legislator, but it's hard to legislate when my party's out of power.

When I make decisions, it's not based on what the Republican Party does. I'm elected by the 9th congressional district.

Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and one is called "Democratic." It is the same party so it makes no difference whether a Democrat's elected or a Republican's elected. The ownership remains the same.

So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.

If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand.

At the end of the day, I have one job requirement right now that's been given to me by the Republican Party and, I think, the American people, and that's to fire Nancy Pelosi.

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama.

I wouldn't say Hollywood is anti-Republican, I certainly haven't experienced that.

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.

I never heard the word 'compromise' used. So I'm starting to believe that these terms only come into play to try and force Republicans to do what the Democrats want.

Republicans tend to be grumpy old men.

As for life within a Legislature,— who can tell how warped and bent and twisted, and accommodated to the exigencies of party struggle become the faculties of belief?

It’s in their interest to keep a Republican majority …. It’s sort of ‘Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.”

Republicans will take on people in the interest of power. Democrats will take on power in the interests of people.

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

I'm always happy to see one of my Republican colleagues make a mistake.

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.... By the turn of the century it'll be a 95 percent white Republican Party and a 99 percent black Democratic Party. That's not what we need.

I was never a Democrat but there are some Republicans who think I ought to be.

The special interests drive both parties to their extremes.

I was ashamed to call myself a Republican during that period.

I am reluctant to intrude my views or in any way suggest what Congress ought to do, but I feel free to say to you that it would be exceedingly gratifying if Congress could clear all appropriation bills out of the way during the present session.

The Republicans got everything but the Democratic donkey.