Unanimous Consent Quotes

Let the filibuster be no more. Let the people decide.

If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

Where men have general rights, and are all guided, as it were, by one mind, it is certain that every individual has the less right the more the rest collectively exceed him in power

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.

Mass opinion has acquired mounting power in this century. It has shown itself to be a dangerous master of decisions when the stakes are life and death.

The reforms we achieved did not enjoy the support of everybody, but they did receive the support of the majority needed to pass them ...

I don't expect everyone to agree with me. Frankly, I'd be shocked if they did.

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

Anybody who get easily frustrated should not be in the United States Senate. We operate by unanimous consent …. Any Senator can stop the train.

Great innovations should not be forced on a slender majority

The notion that a person's constitutional rights may be subject to a majority vote is itself anathema.

If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure.

Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?

No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.

How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.

While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.

If all mankind, minus one, were of one opinion ..., mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power would be justified in silencing mankind.

How, sir! Is this enormous evil ever to be eradicated, if every nation is thus prudentially to wait till the concurrence of all the world shall have been obtained?

Unfortunately, some judges evidently do not regard a debate in Parliament on new immigration rules, followed by the unanimous adoption of those rules, as evidence that Parliament actually wants to see those new rules implemented.

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.

Not many people agree with what I do.

I wish to make a unanimous-consent request, the necessity of which I find incredible. I ask unanimous consent to use hand calculators on the Senate floor.... I understand that the rules are so ancient that the ability to use these calculators except by unanimous consent seems to be in doubt.

I believe a board in a small startup company should never vote on anything.

It was muscled through. People were just told to forget their qualms and vote.