Government Quote by Sara Gideon

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

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

— Kent Conrad

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

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

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

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'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

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

As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war…

— Chris Van Hollen

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

— Wendell Berry