Francis Maude Quotes

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

I'll be reaching across the aisle to find opportunities to work with Democrats on the issues that desperately need to be addressed.

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.

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

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.

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.

I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.

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

I'm going to reach out to everybody, Democrat, Republican and independent. I'm going to work with all the people in the district, and whether they're an 'R' or a 'D' doesn't matter.

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.

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.

I'm a believer in bipartisanship.

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

I am willing to work with anyone that wants to do what is best for this country.

Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.

Bipartisanship is “the oil of national government.”

Goodness knows, we have horrible problems to face in this Congress. I hope we can face them as colleagues in working unitedly for the people of this country and certainly not indulging in animosity or referring to each other as ''enemies.''

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

Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

To get Congress working again, I'm dedicated to working with anyone who has an open mind, good ideas, and a willingness to work together.

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.

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