Constitution Quote by Joe Biden

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

“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

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

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

— Mitch McConnell

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

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

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

“Let's throw his ass out the airlock," suggested the Speaker of the House. "We can't do that," said the Chief Justice of the Supreme…

— Bruce Sterling

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

Even Merrick Garland can't get up and give a press conference in which he says, "Give me a damn vote." We just hear silence.

— Dahlia Lithwick

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

The Democrats filibustered something in the Senate when I was eight years old. I don't remember what it was on and I didn't honestly…

— Jonathan Krohn