Congressional Seat Quotes

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

I'm not a game-show contestant, I'm a U.S. senator.

As I stated shortly after retiring from the U.S. Army and first pursuing a seat in Congress in 2010, I planned to self-impose term limits.

Serving in Congress is the great honor of my professional life. I am deeply grateful to the people of the 4th Congressional District for placing their trust in me.

The way I see it, I'm not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I'm going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

There aren't a whole lot of people out of 300 million who could elected to the Congress.

I fought really hard to win a seat in Congress, and everybody else did, too.

When I worked in a medical practice, our practice provided the insurance. When I retired the next day to run for public office to run for Congress, I had to pay first dollar.

We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run for Congress two and three times before they won their seat.

It is not nothing to ask someone holding an election certificate in the United States Senate to provide his or her vote.

I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.

When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.

I'd like to be a U.S. senator from Tennessee.

I believe 2014 will be another historic year for conservatives in Arkansas, and I stand ready to help with that effort and make sure a conservative wins the 2nd Congressional District.

We think it's so important that we get [Carolyne] Maloney in that seat [in Congress]. It's one of the reasons; we also think that she is a unique person that deserves it and would help advance women's rights.

I first decided to run for Congress when I was 29 - and became a Representative at the age of 30.

My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.

You can't win a congressional seat unless you have money. Even if you do, it's tick-tock, tick-tock until someone with more money beats you.

At the end of the day, there's not an office complex anywhere on these grounds that I wouldn't be honored to have as a sitting member of Congress.

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.

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

I never envisioned retiring out of the Congress.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

When my sister and I came along, my father's political life was completely over. He ran for president the year I was born. So that was the end of it. He had been congressman first, then governor, before all that. So when we came along, he was running the Dayton newspaper.