Amy Klobuchar Quotes

The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.

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.

Compromise is the oil that makes government go.

I think with the right leadership on both sides and the right president, we can get a lot done.

Every one of us in Congress has a responsibility to keep working together and stay focused on what matters.

What Lincoln did is he gathered people around him the way that I believe President Obama is doing by calling Republicans, talking to them, trying to work with them. And when that happens, big things get solved.

I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

As a young lawyer, I learned to try to find common ground with people, to look for a human connection. When I got to the Senate, despite the fact that there were a lot of people who didn't want me to get there - and were sure they'd never even talk to me, let alone work with me - I really tried to do the job I was sent there to do by the people of New York, which was to get things done for my constituents. I worked with Republicans, and we found a lot of common ground. It isn't easy, but it's part of what we have to do in politics today.

The Republicans are coming - make nice.

But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that.

As the nation watches, Democrats and Republicans should reflect the interspersed character of America itself. Perhaps, by sitting with each other for one night, we will begin to rekindle that common spark that brought us here from 50 different states and widely diverging backgrounds to serve the public good.

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.

Though the views of members of the House and Senate are as divergent as the people we represent, we bear the responsibility to work through our political differences and get things done. That's our job.

If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.

Politics is a people business. I like people.

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

The art of government is the art of negotiating and compromise.

In government, consensus is more important than command; persuasion not only works better than arrogance, it's vital to the democratic process.

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

In campaigning, you want to slay your opponent. In governing, you want to make love to your opponent.

Today, as an independent, an entrepreneur, and a former mayor, I believe we need a president who is a problem solver, not a bomb thrower. Someone who can bring members of Congress together to get things done. And I know Hillary Clinton can do that because I saw it firsthand.

Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand.

Let's end the political games. Stop the finger pointing and do the work the American people sent us here to do.

I wasn't looking for a hobby. If I were looking for a hobby, it wouldn't be the United States Senate. That's one of the toughest jobs I'd probably ever do. I just felt there wasn't enough compromise going on: People were too far to the left, too far to the right, with no one trying to build a compromise.