Cloture Quotes

#1. In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

Peter Fenn

#2. If the bill remains what it is now, I will not be able to support a cloture motion before final passage. Therefore I will try to stop the passage of the bill.

Joe Lieberman

#3. Cloture is simply cutting off debate.

Ted Cruz

#4. If Obama's a tyrant, he's a pretty tame tyrant. How many tyrants do you know that really suffer because they can't get cloture?

Jon Stewart

#5. The main thing I look at is: Is it from the heart? If I know that you down with me, then we always gonna be down through whatever the thick and thin.

Raekwon

#6. Sometimes it's about less is more. It's about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it started with this just seed.

Fred Durst

#7. If you don't feel as close to God today as you did yesterday, who moved?

Chris Heimerdinger

#8. The 'in' campaign will attempt to scare people into believing that if the U.K. were to leave, investment and jobs would move abroad. They are as wrong about that now as they were when they warned that this would happen if we did not sign up to the Euro.

Nigel Lawson

#9. I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.

Flannery O'Connor