Cannot Quote by Ritchie Torres

We've seen filibusters of bills and nominations that ultimately passed with 90 or more votes. Why filibuster something that has that kind of support?…

— Elizabeth Warren

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

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

In theory, the filibuster helps whichever party is in the minority in the Senate. In practice, it is the Republicans who have disproportionately used…

— Mehdi Hasan

The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not…

— Juan Williams

The Founders surely never imagined that a three-fifths majority would be the standard requirement for passing legislation in the upper chamber, and for most…

— Steve Kornacki

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

Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes…

— Evan Bayh

We have promised to do better, and no Republican concern should ever be enough to filibuster our own bill.

— Orrin Hatch

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

So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.

— Kent Conrad

The structure of the Senate concentrates power in a small subset of states that are much whiter, much more rural, much more conservative than…

— Ritchie Torres