Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I am here today to address Democrat leadership's effort to demolish the Senate rules and structure, and thereby destroy the world's greatest deliberative body. Their ploy would silence millions of Americans, and it would substantially harm our Nation. Abolishing the filibuster would end the Senate's unique role in American Government, which has kept us on the steady course of becoming a more perfect union for the past 230 years. This unique role is to ensure that Federal legislation, covering all 50 States, requires careful debate and broad support, often reflecting compromise, so that American policy is durable and lasting. That way, as the senior Senator from Arizona put it in her courageous and patriotic remarks last week, we avoid ``wild reversals in Federal policy'' every few years on the basis of bare majorities, which would make our government far less effective and our economy far less stable. Democrats know how integral the filibuster is to American Government. Democrats have said it themselves. Eliminating the filibuster would ``be the end of the Senate.'' That is a direct quote from the senior Senator from Illinois in 2018. The Democratic leader, before assuming his current position, said that eliminating the filibuster would ``be a doomsday for democracy.'' And President Biden, when he was Senator Biden, said that to eliminate the filibuster would be ``the arrogance of power.'' Apparently, he is now suffering from such arrogance.…”