Scott Howell Quotes

I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments.

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.

He was my favorite senator... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

Look, Orrin Hatch is not a bad guy. But he is an old guy, and he's a lifer politician.

The Congress is a power-oriented party.

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

If the notion on this is we're going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th least senior person in there and be polite, and somewhere in their fourth or fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody cares about, don't vote for me.

Politicians are becoming mouthpieces for other forces justifying the status quo.

The people never have and never will be able to understand how the will of a majority of the House of Representatives can be set aside by the judgment of a few men on a powerful committee.

Wilbur Mills knows that he was chairman of Ways and Means before I got here and that he'll still be chairman after I've gone—and he knows I know it.

It's been an honour to represent Orpington for 9 years & to serve as a minister under three PMs.

I'm trying to make the case to voters across the political spectrum that someone who brings a younger perspective - a fresher perspective... can change the culture in Washington more effectively than someone who has run for office 9 or 10 times.

There was imbalance with my first husband just by the given of our 29-year age difference and the difficulty of me being this unformed, enthusiastic young woman and he already completely in place being the leader of the country.

The representatives of people become uncrowned kings and queens once they get into Parliament.

I think if we had eight or 12 of us in the Senate who came from my business background, you'd see a lot of different things in government.

Hef has always been attracted to younger women. He loves to see the world through the eyes of someone seeing it for the first time.

He's a nice guy who will never change the Senate. He is the Senate. Eighteen years in politics, and he's got two cousins who are senators, too. Mark Udall's dad even ran for president.

I understand clearly as a freshman in Congress, you don't get to steer the bus.

The average guy doesn't have an army of lobbyists and lawyers working on his behalf every day in the White House.

I am older than most of my on-screen colleagues, and the ones behind the scenes, too.

I remember Nigel Martyn joking with me at Leeds, saying he was old enough to be my father, which he certainly was.

I got the name Lil Baby because I always hung around older dudes.

I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.

My grandfather was a popular senator, known as an advocate for fiscal responsibility, including the line-item veto for the president.