American Quote by Claire McCaskill

The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may be in the majority now, but someday it will…

— Timothy Noah

We've seen filibusters to block judicial nominations, jobs bills, political transparency, ending Big Oil subsidies - you name it, there's been a filibuster.

— Elizabeth Warren

My view of the filibuster is either you've got to lower vote edge or make people really filibuster if they feel that seriously about…

— Angus King

It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is…

— Jim Bunning

In theory, the filibuster helps whichever party is in the minority in the Senate. In practice, it is the Republicans who have disproportionately used…

— Mehdi Hasan

So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.

— Kent Conrad

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…

— Jeff Merkley

The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

— Hendrik Hertzberg

The Founders surely never imagined that a three-fifths majority would be the standard requirement for passing legislation in the upper chamber, and for most…

— Steve Kornacki

If Republicans aren't willing to vote for voting rights, and if the only way to safeguard our fundamental right to vote is to blow…

— Jonathan Capehart

Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes…

— Evan Bayh