Consent Quote by 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

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

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

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

— Bernie Sanders

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

— 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

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

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

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

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