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[Filibustering of a presidential nominee is] just sort of emblematic of senators pushing their powers here into an area where we traditionally said that senators are willing to defer to the president.

January 11, 2013, Sarah A. Binder, National Public Radio

It's gotten much worse, and it’s not just the Congress, it’s the whole American political system. We have incentives now for a political party, in this case the Republican opposition party, to do whatever it can to destroy the president.

June 4, 2012, Thomas E. Mann, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart