(17 quotes found)
“They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.”
Clare Boothe Luce
“Many folks, including me, frankly, were disappointed that Senator Landrieu a few years ago filibustered and supported that filibuster of Miguel Estrada ... after she had expressed strong support of that very nomination in her re-election campaign,”
David Vitter
“So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.”
Kent Conrad
“You're going to get a filibuster either way,”
Sam Brownback
“I think you can put up John Roberts' ideological twin and you'd get a filibuster at this point. Their base is demanding it. I think unless the person has written extensively about Roe [in a positive way], you're going to get a filibuster. And that's unlikely. I just think a filibuster is going to happen.”
“You're going to get a filibuster either way. So let's fight over something we know what the fight is about.”
“We couldn't break the filibuster without making some changes, we have to break the filibuster so we can at least have the House and the Senate both have a bill,”
Russ Feingold
“They cannot, as they have been doing now for more than six weeks, keep filibuster hopes alive by suggestions and hints, and then claim their political hands are clean when senators on this side of the aisle respond.”
Orrin Hatch
“that I can't filibuster.”
Bill Nelson
“Now we're at a point where the filibuster against Bolton -- and yes, I'll call it a filibuster until we get an up-or-down vote -- is continuing,”
Bill Frist
