Hillary Clinton Quotes

I will keep working with both parties in the House to get things done for people in our District.

If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.

The only bipartisan place in D.C. is Brooks Brothers.

I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.

My message to Washington is the United States has gone through incredible crises, and our leaders have been able to find common ground. And that's what our leaders have to do.

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.

We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

I don't know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as my mentor, as people like Bill Bradley have told me to do, get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, beat with the same heart and the same type of blood.

I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about.

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.

Gingrich, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, and Clinton passed legislation because they understood and appreciated the difficult political process. They fought for their principles yet recognized the need for compromise to get anything done.

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

I look forward to working with President Trump. I've worked with him many times in the past, but we disagree.

You'll never get progress in Washington until you have a majority, bipartisan majority, that really wants to solve problems.

We want to move forward in a bipartisan fashion to solve our problems.

I've been able to bridge divides in a very partisan time and get Republicans and Democrats to work with me to try to improve people's lives.

You have to work across the aisle. Americans have had enough of the gridlock in Washington.

The only way I can get progressive things done is working with Republicans.

One of the positives of the Illinois delegation is the congressmen and women work together on issues of local concern in a lot of different ways.

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.

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.

[Donald Trump] has had the good judgment and common sense to get back with all these people, who have written the legislation already.

As I reflect back on what's worked for me in this [presidential] office it's been that I've gotten people who maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged. Ironically, I've even gotten the other side that maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged.

When you involve yourself in a group like No Labels, …I think it is a positive step in the right direction of trying to get things done