Agenda Quote by Timothy Noah

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

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

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

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

There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.

— Jeff Merkley

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

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

— Kent Conrad

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

As every newspaper reader, liberal activist, or parliamentary junkie knows, the overarching barrier to most of Obama's agenda is the abuse of the filibuster…

— Ari Melber

I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.

— Tom Udall

Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

— Barack Obama