Block Quote by Ralph Nader

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

— Rush Limbaugh

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

In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

— Lamar Alexander

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 used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of…

— John Cornyn

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

— Tom Stoppard

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its…

— George Sand

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

I've come to realize that an unencumbered U.S. senator is a profound threat to the whole system. It's somebody that they can't put in…

— Angus King

I have this fear that one day there's going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57…

— Barney Frank

My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table.

— Pramila Jayapal

The Senate is an unknowing world

— Robert Caro