MJ Hegar Quotes

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

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.

Bipartisanship is “the oil of national government.”

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

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

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

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that.

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

I'm a believer in bipartisanship.

We aren't going to agree on everything and there will be other areas where we will be working together.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

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.

Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand.

One of the ways usually that you build a bipartisan agreement is one side gives up a little, and the other side gives up a little.

We cannot agree on everything but we must agree on the framework.

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

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

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

The idea that two political parties can't come together to get a mission done is foreign to me - and unacceptable.