Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

True bipartisanship isn’t talking about it. It’s delivering it.

I have long-since said that working... together and accomplishing things in a bipartisan way doesn't mean compromising your values.

Bipartisanship is “the oil of national government.”

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand.

We owe it to the American people to set aside the areas where our ideology may prevent progress and find common ground where there are plenty of opportunities to produce good results.

I will do my part every day to work with my colleagues in a bipartisan fashion to unite us, and not divide us.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

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

In a divided government, you can't just say, 'It's my way or the highway.'

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 sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

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.

Compromise, compromise and compromise.

We need a lot more respect in this country for compromise…. There is in compromise a lot of integrity, especially political integrity.

This is good government. We have divided government. To make divided government work you can’t ask each other to compromise core principles…. We ask each other to find common ground for the common good.

When you hang the 'bipartisan' tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out, and there's a broad agreement that that's the way forward.

John McCain felt very strongly about virtually every issue that he tackled, but it was never based in partisanship. He didn't try to score partisan points as he worked on issues. He would work with anyone who wanted to accomplish the goal that he shared.

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

I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.

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.

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.