Aisle Quote by Lamar Alexander

When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are…

— John Breaux

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have…

— Steve Chabot

The Senate is allowed to work the way it was designed to - meaning a place where nothing is decided without a good dose…

— Mitch McConnell

You have a hundred senators, but for anything to happen you need 60, which makes it really hard for anything to happen.

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Steve Kornacki

Though the views of members of the House and Senate are as divergent as the people we represent, we bear the responsibility to work…

— Martha Roby

The majority in the Senate is prepared to restore the Senate's traditions and precedents to ensure that regardless of party, any president's judicial nominees,…

— Mitch McConnell

Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in…

— Al Franken

That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it…

— Ralph Nader

I have long maintained that voting rights is more important than preserving any Senate procedural rule.

— Raphael Warnock

It doesn't entirely make sense that if 51 senators are from one party, and they can stick together, they can do whatever they want.…

— Gene Weingarten

I found, in the Senate, you can have significant impact whether you're in the minority party or the majority party, and a lot of…

— Mike DeWine