Affront Quote by Hendrik Hertzberg

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

The structure of the Senate concentrates power in a small subset of states that are much whiter, much more rural, much more conservative than…

— Ritchie Torres

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

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

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

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

— Kent Conrad

The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not…

— Juan Williams

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

The only tool the Democrats have is in the Senate, and it's the filibuster.

— Rush Limbaugh

As every newspaper reader, liberal activist, or parliamentary junkie knows, the overarching barrier to most of Obama's agenda is the abuse of the filibuster…

— Ari Melber

Republicans have used the filibuster to turn the Senate into a de facto 60-vote body.

— Steve Kornacki