filibuster

“I think it's very dangerous to eliminate the filibuster. The filibuster is like a control mechanism that keeps the Senate from ricocheting back and forth between the wild edges of the political pressure from either party.”

“What I think is the most important vote I've ever taken in my entire life, and that was the vote to protect the filibuster.”

“The next time the Democrats have the trifecta, they will absolutely get rid of the filibuster.”

“Oh, that's one of the kinds of hill I would die on now. To defend the filibuster, how important it is to the Senate, but also Senate for the minority rights, whoever that happens to be in that time, you know, that's what's so critical, what the filibuster is t…”