Barack Quote by Peter Fenn

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

We can't change the way Washington works unless we first change how Congress works.

— Barack Obama

I think the American people can change Washington. But I think that it is not going to change, because somebody from on high directs…

— Barack Obama

The fact that Washington has been a complete logjam for anything for the last six years has got to change because we need to…

— Bill McKibben

The change doesn't come from Washington ever. Change comes from below. It comes from the pressure building amongst the American people.

— Rick Rowley

Change very often comes to Washington, not from Washington.

— Tom Perez

If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the…

— Eric Cantor

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

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

In order to change Washington, we're going to have to change the people that we send there.

— Jason Kander

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

Change doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington

— Barack Obama