Jordan Tama Quotes

One of the ways usually that you build a bipartisan agreement is one side gives up a little, and the other side gives up a little.

I think if you're going to get anything done in the Senate, you have to be on the same sheet of music. If you don't get people on the same sheet of music it comes out pretty horrible.

Periods of cooperation between political parties shouldn't be taken for granted; they are a stunning human achievement.

Compromises may not make great heroes, but they do make great democracies.

Obama has been deliberative to a fault and an inveterate seeker of the middle ground.

I believe in discussing very thoroughly what should be the goal. When discussing it, I allow others to give their views.

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor.

Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.

I hear from everybody, and they say 'Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense.' We're not hired to fight.

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.

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

In politics, you must let the other person have your way.

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

I believe any time that both parties are talking, it's a good thing.

Majority rule is not the norm for solving issues or problems.

Washington has been a lethal town for wives.

Compromise, compromise and compromise.

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

In Washington the word “compromise” has come to mean “surrender.” You just can’t do it

You can’t change Washington from the inside. You can only change Washington from the outside.

It’s tough for Washington to pass complicated legislation.