Bernie Sanders Quotes

I understand the principles of dissent in parliament.

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

Filibuster is a harsh word. I prefer to offer amendments and let others filibuster.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.

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.

Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don't alienate the legislature on Day 1.

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

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

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.

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.

We've seen filibusters of bills and nominations that ultimately passed with 90 or more votes. Why filibuster something that has that kind of support? Just to slow down the process and keep the Senate from working.

Don't call the question unless you've got the votes.

For me an hour-long speech is not a filibuster. It is a brief observation.

Being Speaker [of the House] is hard work.

In politics, demonstration not description is the name of the game.

Some people may call it a filibuster. I call it an extended educational dialogue.

The filibuster has only been around for 2564 years.

I don’t care how long it takes. I don’t care if the Senate doesn’t do one other piece of business this year. You’ve got to keep this bill on the floor. You can tell Mansfield [the Senate Majority Leader] … The President of the United States doesn’t care if this bill is there forever. We are not going to have anything else hit the floor until this bill is passed.

I can say this very clearly: I have come into this Congress with an antiwar bias.

House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics.

I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.

We have never said that we want to challenge the institution of Parliament.

It's no secret I was part of John Dingell's whip team.

We must challenge to fight at every level, including Congress and to make that challenge political and to organize as a political party is how we get traction.