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President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

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It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

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The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

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Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. ↗

— Howard Hughes

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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. ↗

— Helen Keller

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

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I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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I shall assume that your silence gives consent. ↗

— Plato

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Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

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