Karen Hughes Quotes

Virginians want you to work across the aisle.

In my district, I have a very clear mandate to work across the aisle.

I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is.

I'm happy to work with Democrats. After all, they have to represent their districts just as I have to represent mine.

Believe it or not, one of the things I try to do around here is try to look for opportunities to work with people across the aisle. I know that's not the common narrative. But the truth is if you want to get anything done, that's an absolute requirement.

I'm always looking for people on the other side of the aisle for any initiative I'm sponsoring - men and women - to move things forward.

I'm perhaps not the most tribal of politicians. Working in a mature and adult way where you recognise what your shared goal is and you manage to work towards that... that is not something which I think would be particularly more difficult with Labour than it is with the Conservatives.

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.

I'm a huge fan of bipartisanship and working together to get things done.

I'd like to see that bipartisanship come back that we used to have in the House of Representatives, in the Clinton years. I think there's a possibility that the voters are going to send the message that everybody running - Congress, the Senate, the presidency - that they want us to come together.

I believe in working in a bipartisan manner.

I'm a believer in bipartisanship.

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.

I was entirely comfortable reaching across the Senate aisle to work with Democrats.

One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation. He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008.

We can work with anybody. I mean, we passed the 9/11 health bill with Tom Cotton. Most people would assume I wouldn't be able to work with Tom Cotton and Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.

Nebraska Republicans believe that Nebraska Democrats love their kids, and I believe we can have a constructive conversation with everybody.

I have a long, long record of working with Democrats and Republicans alike.

I just want to work with legislative council members from across the political spectrum to get things done.

I'll be reaching across the aisle to find opportunities to work with Democrats on the issues that desperately need to be addressed.

Throughout my time in Congress, I've made it my priority to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, to look past partisanship and to help pass commonsense legislation so we can help working families in Nevada and across our country.

Every Donald Trump person that I've talked to - everyone from every walk of life - has said pretty much the same thing. If Trump has to work with Democrats to get some of what he wants done, so be it. I haven't run into anybody... Now, and this is purely anecdotal, and I don't talk to a lot of people.

[Barack Obama] needs to really engage both Republicans and Democrats.

When I got to the Senate, I started working with Republicans. I think I practically worked with every single one of them, and a lot of them were on record talking about what a good colleague I am and how I like to get things done.