Nancy Pelosi Quotes

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

[Addressing Congress:] The people await action. They did not send us here to bicker ... Let us negotiate soon—and hard. But in the end, let us produce.

Sometimes the Senate really does rise above politics. It’s rare, but sometimes it happens.

If I have learned anything from my time in Congress, it is that the only way we are going to solve the big problems our country faces is by working together.

I think it's very important to get ego out of the room. I think it's important to realize it takes two hands to clap - stop the pointing, stop the blame game. I think we've seen enough of that, I think the country is tired of it. I think they want to see Washington function, they want to see action.

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

I'm a believer in bipartisanship.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

Bipartisanship is “the oil of national government.”

Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand.

We must work together as Americans in a bipartisan fashion.

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

We must have courage to set partisanship aside and embrace the best ideas and solutions no matter which side of the aisle they come from.

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

We'll get things done together. Democrats, Republicans, independents, we're going to make progress together when I'm president.

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'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating.

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

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

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.

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.

It is possible for political forces to agree.

I choose to bring people together. I choose to seek compromise.

The chairman of a committee should be in harmony with the majority who constitute it.