Consciousness Quote by Mohadesa Najumi

“Stop filibustering, and start love-mustering.”

— Abhijit Naskar

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

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

— Jeff Merkley

Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

— Barack Obama

Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes…

— Douglas Wilder

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

“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 mock rationality of the debate conceals the arbitrariness of the will and power at work in its resolution. It”

— Alasdair MacIntyre

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

There's a romanticized vision of the filibuster as the best hope for bipartisanship it's given us nothing but gridlock. It has made Washington, D.C.,…

— Ritchie Torres

A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that all versions…

— Dale Jamieson