Compromise Quote by Steve Chabot

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

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

— Steve Kornacki

From an institution standpoint, I want the American people to understand that the Senate can function, even on the most serious things.

— Richard Burr

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

— Rush Limbaugh

That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it…

— Ralph Nader

The Senate is extremely slow: They have enormous difficulty passing the bills that even get through the House. That's the reality that I've recognized…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

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

When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are…

— John Breaux

Not just for the U.S. Senate but it also means for school board and city council. We need to revitalize American democracy. We need…

— Bernie Sanders

The Senate was the equivalent of an aristocracy at the beginning. Senators were not even elected; they were appointed in the early days. Then…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when…

— Lindsey Graham