The Ledger
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Sinema: Eliminating the filibuster would dangerously destabilize the Senate
“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.”
Sinema: Neither major U.S. political party cares about national debt
“Neither party cares about debt. Neither party cares about debt.”
Sinema: Most Gaza aid is siphoned off by Hamas
“We know that the majority of it is being siphoned off by Hamas and used as a weapon of war.”
Schumer pressured Sinema to vote no on her first Israel bill
“My first vote in the United States Senate was a vote on the issue of Israel, and I got a call from, at the time, minority leader, Chuck Schumer, and he asked me to vote no. On, on the measure.”
Sinema: Politicians conform to party lines to belong, not from coercion
“Most people want to do the party line thing. It's not like they're sitting around going like, oh, I really don't want to vote this way, but I really feel like I have to save my career. There's this thing about being part of the club. People want to be part of …”
Sinema: Political parties with total control always overreach and trigger corrections
“When one party has total control, they overuse it. That is what happens, because when a party gets power, they think they're gonna have it forever, they overreach, and then the system corrects”
Sinema: JD Vance is unbothered by disagreements on policy issues
“What I really appreciate about JD is that it doesn't bother him that we don't agree on everything.”
Sinema: American politics demands total agreement or treats opponents as enemies
“There's this thing that I think is kind of disturbing that's happened in American politics, and it's this idea that you either have to agree with someone 100% of the time, or they are your mortal enemy and must be destroyed.”
Sinema: Voting to protect the filibuster was the most important vote of my life
“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.”
Sinema mistakenly claims the founding Senate required 100 votes for legislation
“When the Senate was founded, it took a hundred senators to move forward on a piece of legislation, right? A hundred. And it's eroded down to 60.”
Sinema: Politicians refuse fiscal sacrifices due to fear of losing re-election
“The solution to those fiscal problems require sacrifice in the short term, and elected officials are not willing to sacrifice anything in the short term because it means that they may not get re-elected. And if their number one goal is to survive, then they're…”
Sinema: Running for a U.S. Senate seat in Arizona costs $150 million
“A Senate seat in Arizona is like, what, a hundred and fifty million dollars?”