Legislative Majority Quotes

I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.

I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.

Starting in 2005, my first session in the legislature, my colleagues elected me to be Democratic whip.

The reigning conservatives in the House and Senate felt a relief that they did not try to conceal at the fact that I was not to remain as President.

The Republican Party had a big day in yesterday's midterm elections and now controls the House and Senate. And don't ask me how this happened, but the Republican Party also gained control of three seats in our show's band.

All of us know that any substantial block of votes can cause trouble in the French legislature because practically any French government has to have the votes of many groups to have a majority.

Whatever your views are, we have a Constitution and we have a Bill of Rights, and we have a law of the land. Two thirds of Democrats in the Senate and three fourths of the Republicans. I signed it, and I am going to enforce it, and I am going to observe it. And I think anyone who is worthy of the high office of President is going to do the same thing.

To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws . . .

We need more Democrats in the Senate - like Custer needed more arrows.

For those of us who originally disagreed with ObamaCare and now disagree with the majority opinion of the SCOTUS, the challenge remains the same as it would have been had the Court ruled otherwise. We need to elect Mitt Romney and House and Senate majorities that will repeal ObamaCare and replace it with free-market, pro-liberty solutions.