“I'll answer those questions when I'm the senator.”
Sharron Angle (1949) Former member of the Nevada Assembly from 1999 to 2007
Context: Nathan Baca: If you want to be one of 100 U. S. Senators that are deciding on war powers and on ratifying treaties, which is what a Senator has to do, you have to answer these questions.
Sharron Angle: Well, certainly. And I'll answer those questions when I'm the senator.
Cokie Roberts (1943–2019) American journalist
February 26, 1989, on the ABC News program This Week With David Brinkley ([Tower Excerpts: ‘I’m a Single Man; I Do Date Women’, February 27, 1989, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-02-27-mn-411-story.html])
Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) American author and Unitarian clergyman
Reported in Van Wyck Brooks, New England: Indian Summer, 1865–1915 (1940), p. 418, footnote. Another source states: "The celebrated anecdote... is not so unambiguous as it appears... There is no reason to doubt the authenticity of Hale's reply, but it should be understood within a framework of respect for the senators as well as concern for the country. He knew every one of them personally and regarded them, as he said in his preface to Prayers in The Senate (1904), as 'intelligent men, in very close daily intimacy with each other, in the discharge of a common duty of the greatest importance.'" John R. Adams, Edward Everett Hale (1977), pp. 100–101.
Disputed
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
Daily Telegram number 2678, Mr. Rogers Takes Notice Of The Senatorial Storm (6 March 1935)
Daily telegrams
“Do you pray for the Senators, Dr. Hale?”
Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) American author and Unitarian clergyman
someone asked the chaplain. "No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country."
Reported in Van Wyck Brooks, New England: Indian Summer, 1865–1915 (1940), p. 418, footnote. Another source states: "The celebrated anecdote... is not so unambiguous as it appears... There is no reason to doubt the authenticity of Hale's reply, but it should be understood within a framework of respect for the senators as well as concern for the country. He knew every one of them personally and regarded them, as he said in his preface to Prayers in The Senate (1904), as 'intelligent men, in very close daily intimacy with each other, in the discharge of a common duty of the greatest importance.'" John R. Adams, Edward Everett Hale (1977), pp. 100–101.
Disputed
Lindsey Graham (1955) United States Senator from South Carolina
Graham commenting on unpopularity of Cruz in the Senate. As quoted in http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/26/politics/lindsey-graham-ted-cruz-dinner/ February 26, 2016 <br class="br">2010s
Ted Cruz (1970) American politician
Lindsey Graham, February 26, 2016, as quoted in Lindsey Graham jokes about how to get away with murdering Ted Cruz http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/26/politics/lindsey-graham-ted-cruz-dinner (CNN.com)
Francis Escudero (1969) Filipino politician
2014, Speech: Sponsorship Speech for the FY 2015 National Budget
