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Filibuster
Total Quotes : 18
About
Lower
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 a piece of legislation.
- Angus King
Own
Willing
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. That way, the American people could figure out who is being obstructionist and who is willing to compromise.
- Claire McCaskill
Politics
Say
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
- Clare Boothe Luce
Women
Congress
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
- Clare Boothe Luce
Politics
The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth mentioning. Let me be the skunk at this political garden party and say this stinks. Representative government was not designed to work this way by the Founding Fathers.
- Juan Williams
Education
Year
We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.
- Bayard Rustin
Death
Purpose
You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.
- Dick Durbin
Your
Use
When you use the word 'filibuster,' most of us in America - and I count myself among them - envision it as the ability to hold the floor on rare occasions to speak at length and make your point emphatically and even delay progress by taking hours.
- Jeff Merkley
Ways
Form
There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.
- Jeff Merkley
Doing
Feet
My way of viewing the talking filibuster was as a way of doing unanimous consent with your feet. You object by going down and talking.
- Jeff Merkley
Want
Though
It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is stopping judicial nominations, the Energy bill, or this Medicare bill.
- Jim Bunning
College
Doing
No one likes the Electoral College, expect perhaps those who were elected because of it. No one likes gerrymandering, except those doing the gerrymandering. No one likes the filibuster, except those doing the filibustering.
- Kevin Bleyer
Needed
Issue
Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60.
- Evan Bayh
Go
About
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
Idea
Became
It used to be in the Senate that if you were filibustering, you stood up. There was a physical dimension to it, that you - when you became exhausted you would have to leave the floor. That was the idea of the filibuster.
- Tom Udall
Rule
Governing
There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.
- Tony Snow
Change
Will
President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.
- Peter Fenn
Tyranny
Last
In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.
- Peter Fenn
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