Robert Byrd: “What makes this body unique is the unlimited right to amend and the unlimited right to debate.”

Bob, I will never know the rules as well as you do. I will make a deal with you. I will not surprise you if you will not surprise me.

Makes the majority leader and the majority party the subject of the minority, subject to the control and the will of the minority.

The Senate is the proverbial saucer intended to cool the cup of coffee from the House.

Senator Robert Byrd, the expert extraordinary on the Senate, spent weeks on end trying to figure out a way that you could assure the passage of bills that pertained to the budget and not destroy the filibuster rule.