Been Quote by Elizabeth Warren

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

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

We shouldn't deny the right of the minority to filibuster, but we need to do a much better job of making them own it.…

— Claire McCaskill

We've seen filibusters of bills and nominations that ultimately passed with 90 or more votes. Why filibuster something that has that kind of support?…

— Elizabeth Warren

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

I would never filibuster any President’s judicial nominee, period. I might vote against them, but I will always see they came to a vote.

— Saxby Chambliss

President Obama had two Supreme Court nominees in his first term. There was no filibuster against them.

— Mitch McConnell

I believe [filibustering judicial nominees] is in violation of the Constitution

— Saxby Chambliss

“There is another, grimmer history to the filibuster, though, one that carries special relevance for me. For almost a century, the filibuster was the…

— Barack Obama

There's a romanticized vision of the filibuster as the best hope for bipartisanship it's given us nothing but gridlock. It has made Washington, D.C.,…

— Ritchie Torres

The next time you do a filibuster, keep walking around.

— Bernie Sanders

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