Quotes About Bipartisanship

Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public.

I strongly believe that every American should always be rooting for our president to do well, no matter which political party that he or she might belong to.

I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.

I don't care if you're Democrat. I don't care if you're Republican. We need to make sure that, you know, people in other countries don't have any impact on our elections.

bothsidesism. It's the insistence that whatever excesses of partisanship you may see on the right have an equivalent on the left, that the way forward to solving America's problems is for good centrists of both parties to come together and work things out. All of this is willfully naïve.

When you have conservative Republican stalwarts like Jim Demint (South Carolina) and Ron Paul (Texas) as well as self-identified Democratic socialists like Bernie Sanders all fighting against the Federal Reserve, you know that it is no longer an issue of Right versus Left.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

I am open and willing to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle on a variety of appropriate measures we can take to prevent firearms from getting into the wrong hands and mitigate future tragedies.

I cannot avoid forgiving everybody that threw a brick at me during my various campaigns, so I think it's important for all of us to bury that and say, 'OK, we need to look forward' - we've got to move forward from 'never Trump' to 'never Hillary.'

My view is, Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter, my view is I'm in Washington to try to work with people.

I've done work for both Democrats and Republicans.

America's going to come back, and for that to happen, we're going to have to have a president who can work across the aisle.

Washington is broken. I know what it takes to get this country back, and will work with good Democrats and good Republicans to do that.

The nation, as you know, is at a critical point. At a time like this we can't risk partisan bickering and political posturing. Our leaders have to reach across the aisle to do the people's work.

At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community.

As much as we may have to battle against a Trump presidency, there's still good relationships within the Senate, bipartisan relationships where we can work together.

When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward.

The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.

I've been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.

Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.

We have to get back to a government where leaders are willing to talk across party lines and do not have absolute politics as the goal.

Virginians want you to work across the aisle.