Better Quote by Orrin Hatch

If Republicans aren't willing to vote for voting rights, and if the only way to safeguard our fundamental right to vote is to blow…

— Jonathan Capehart

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

What's the point of winning the presidency and the Senate and the House if we cannot pass legislation, if we're hopelessly hamstrung by the…

— Ritchie Torres

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

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

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

I think what Americans need and what Mainers need more than anything is government that functions and I think that the filibuster prevents us…

— Sara Gideon

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

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 only tool the Democrats have is in the Senate, and it's the filibuster.

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Steve Kornacki