senator quotes

   Time is the101st Senator†the ally of the people who want to do nothing.

- ChristopherJ Dodd
  On the difficulty of passing President Clinton's health programme when legislators were longing for the holidays. In the NewYork Times, 26  Aug.

I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

- Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ Johnson
  Texas Quarterly, winter issue.

It isn't just dust that is settling in Korea, Senator, it is American blood.

- Douglas MacArthur
  During the Senate inquiry on Mac Arthur's dismissal. Reported in the NewYork Times, 2 May.