Jeff Van Drew Quotes

One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation. He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008.

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

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

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 have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.

We aren't as divided as we think we are. We're not just Republicans sitting in one corner, and Democrats sitting in the other corner.

You have a Republican House, close numbers in the Senate, a Democratic president. If we're going to move forward at all as a country, we're going to have to do it by standing together.

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

Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.

I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.

I was not elected to serve one party but to serve one nation.

There are some in Congress who would rather see their opponents lose than see their country win. That has got to stop…. They must find a way to put country ahead of party.

How to Turn Democrats & Republicans Into Americans

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.

If you want a senator who'll partner with the president to do what's best for the nation, I'm your guy.

Obama's only attempt to unify the country was to unify people who believe that his enemies need to be eliminated.

I'm always looking for people on the other side of the aisle for any initiative I'm sponsoring - men and women - to move things forward.

Good Democrats love America. Good Republicans love America. We need a leader who understands not just the words of unity but the practice of building unity.

I am making every effort to reach out to all party leaders with one clear message: Israel is bigger and more important than any one leader.

Where people are trying to split Americans from each other I want there desperately to be bipartisanship.

The term bipartisanship, that's a means to an end. That's not something that I think you run on. I think you run on solutions.

The challenges our state faces must be met with the best solutions and ideas we can muster - and good ideas and good people reside on both sides of the aisle.

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

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.