Filibuster Quotes

24 quotes by 19 authors

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a… — Evan Bayh
Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed… — Evan Bayh
In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus… — Peter Fenn
So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster. — Kent Conrad
President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we… — Peter Fenn
The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate. — Hendrik Hertzberg
There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster. — Tony Snow
I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time. — Tom Udall
It used to be in the Senate that if you were filibustering, you stood up. There was a physical dimension to it, that you -… — Tom Udall
You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death. — Dick Durbin
I would never filibuster any Presidentâ€™s judicial nominee, period. I might vote against them, but I will always see they came to a vote. — Saxby Chambliss
Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the… — Jennifer Granholm
During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial… — Gail Collins
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. — Clare Boothe Luce
The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth… — Juan Williams
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War.… — George Packer
We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no… — Bayard Rustin
There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent. — Jeff Merkley
My way of viewing the talking filibuster was as a way of doing unanimous consent with your feet. You object by going down and talking. — Jeff Merkley
No one likes the Electoral College, expect perhaps those who were elected because of it. No one likes gerrymandering, except those doing the gerrymandering. No… — Kevin Bleyer

Who Wrote These Filibuster Quotes

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