Consent Quote by Jeff Merkley

There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.

— Jeff Merkley

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

When you use the word 'filibuster,' most of us in America - and I count myself among them - envision it as the ability…

— Jeff Merkley

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

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Kent Conrad

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

— Hendrik Hertzberg

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

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

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 mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.

— Tom Udall

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 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