Quotes About Bipartisanship

In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

I want to be a senator for everyone. I'm trying to get votes from everyone, regardless of race, or age, or gender, or sexual orientation, or disability - or even party. I'm going to Republicans and Democrats talking about the issues that concern them.

I have voted on the merits of legislation, voting both 'with' and 'against' my party.

There's a huge cost in being bipartisan, a tradition started by Newt Gingrich when he took over the House in 1994 and has continued forward, that you dare not vote against the Republican Party even if you're voting against your own initiatives and your own interests.

I'm have one of the most, if not the most, moderate voting records in Congress in the Florida delegation.

Instead of continuing with his empty crusade against voter fraud, President Trump should urge his Republican colleagues in Congress to work with Democrats to update the 1965 Voting Rights Act and restore the right to vote to all American citizens.

I believe in bipartisanship. But when it comes to something as fundamental as voting rights, I just have to ask, bipartisanship at what cost?

If Donald Trump wants to raise the minimum wage to $15, yes, I will work with Donald Trump.

As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, I reached across the aisle to write an economic development bill that addressed poverty in an area stretching from the Mississippi Delta northward all along the Mississippi River - where Americans suffered from low wages, high unemployment, generational poverty, and low educational attainment.

Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress' negotiations often come slow or not at all.

I'll be at the table, as I've been, willing to talk to any Republican who says, 'Look, my country is more important, this pile of bills is not going to go away, the challenges that we have is not going to disappear, we need to cross that divide.' I'm ready. I'm waiting.

Washington would be much better off if it looked more like a state legislature.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

When you have... bipartisan support, it shouldn't devolve into a bipartisan fight.

In the past, leaders of both parties have been able to reach across the partisan divide. They succeeded by retaining their own humanity and recognizing the same in their political opponents.

I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.

Yet his legislative victories were possible only because of the strong Democratic majorities that Obama had helped sweep into Congress. The Republicans stuck to their game plan and refused Obama cooperation from the start, compelling him to pass every major bill on party-line votes, thus denying him the claim to bipartisanship that both the president and the country desired.

For nearly two years, under Lyndon Johnson's domestic leadership, Republicans and Democrats had toiled together to engineer the greatest advances in civil rights since the Civil War and to launch a comprehensive, progressive vision of American society that would leave a permanent imprint on the national landscape.

Notwithstanding a statewide Democratic sweep, he had gained a second term, and despite his youth, he had been chosen by his Republican colleagues as their minority leader.

When I first came to the Senate, people in both parties went out of their way to have personal relationships.

I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

People have no confidence that Washington, both sides of aisle, are coming together to try and do what's right for the economy.

Many times, disagreements between the two political parties in Washington get all the headlines. What's not reported is the fact that Republicans and Democrats agree on where we want to go, but we disagree on how we're going to get there.