"There is no Senate rule governing the proper……" — Tony Snow
"There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster."
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43 Quotes by Tony Snow
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Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or…
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Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.
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The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are…
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We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go…
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To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get…
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I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill and there have been other…
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George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.
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American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.
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George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if…
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In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of…
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President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.
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You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo.
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More Filibuster Quotes
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one of 24 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today,…
— Evan Bayh
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Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory.…
— Evan Bayh
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In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had…
— Peter Fenn
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So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.
— Kent Conrad
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President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much…
— Peter Fenn
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The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.
— Hendrik Hertzberg
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I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent…
— Tom Udall
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It used to be in the Senate that if you were filibustering, you stood up. There was a physical dimension…
— Tom Udall
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You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to…
— Dick Durbin
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I would never filibuster any President’s judicial nominee, period. I might vote against them, but I will always see they…
— Saxby Chambliss
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Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our…
— Jennifer Granholm
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During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue…
— Gail Collins
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