Lois Frankel Quotes

The role of the speaker of the House is to deliver enough votes by understanding and accommodating the individual bottom lines of enough members to pass the bill.

All legislation of any consequence is a compromise. You have to recognize that.

Virginians want you to work across the aisle.

In politics, you have to compromise from morning to evening. Democracy is the art of compromise.

The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.

I never heard the word 'compromise' used. So I'm starting to believe that these terms only come into play to try and force Republicans to do what the Democrats want.

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

We are hugely and sometimes willfully ignorant about the arts of politics and governing, especially about the utter necessity of compromise.

Legislation is the art of compromise.

I am a Republican who is prepared to compromise—and contrary to the current misconceptions, compromise is not a capitulation of one’s principles

The middle in Congress is gone now. That is where we got most things done.

If you really want to get something done in Washington, it has to be done in a bi-Partisan way.

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.

Sometimes you hear that many politicians vote for a bill in various forms before they vote against it, or vice versa. The conflict, negotiation, and eventual compromise involved in this process form the essence of the democratic process.

The government was built on compromising. And it's frustrating as hell.

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

And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.

One of the things I give Nancy Pelosi a lot of credit for is that she's able to get things passed and hold her members together because she shows us that she's doing everything possible to get our views into these bills.

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.

The dominant color of politics is gray; difficult choices and compromise are required at almost every step of the journey toward a major new program.

I wouldn’t be too serious about bipartisanship. It’s a great myth that ought to be fostered. And don’t bring too damn much scholarship to bear on it. You’ll prove it out of existence if you’re not careful.

Majority rule is not the norm for solving issues or problems.

When you are President you have to get something done, and that often means compromise.

Practical politics, being commonly an affair of compromise and relative truth,—a human attempt to modify the severity of Nature's processes …

The conference committee, that wonderful wrestling ring of compromise where House and Senate versions of bill are wrenched into law ...