Tammy Baldwin Quotes

But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process.

As to such of them as you cannot prevail with to concur you are to endeavor at least to soften them in their opposition or to get them to be absent.

With five votes and you can get anything around here.

Because of the term ‘whip’, it is assumed that members can be beaten into submission, but I’ve seldom seen that be successful. It’s getting to know the individual, what they think, how they feel, what’s going on in their personal life, are they agonizers or quick deciders, what kind of leverage can be used with them or on them.

A pragmatic sense of what will and will not play politically is a critical skill of a negotiator.

I'm well aware of the pragmatism of politics.

When you have 435 people who are opinionated... sometimes agreeing on things is difficult.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about it, but if the task force can't come up with the bill, I'm going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we've been working on now for a year or two and just go for it.

It was my wife that insisted I do 'The Hangover.'

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

As a member of Congress, I'm often reminded that in baseball, as in diplomacy, you have to know when to hit, when to run, and when to show grace.

The only way to conduct an effective collaboration is to debate the things upon which you disagree. If one doesn't manage to bring the other around to his point of view, then whichever collaborator feels the most passionate about the thing being debated ought to get his way.

So I told Robert from the start that if we couldn't get Charles and Max to take part, but especially Charles, that I didn't want to make the film. So would he call his mother and talk to Charles and see if Charles would at all be interested.

I've always been very good at convincing people. For instance, if I arrive in an airport and I'm in economy, I can always convince the guy to put me in first class.

In every place there are 100 people who can say no and only one person who can say yes. You have to get a good piece of material to the right person.

Politics isn't just about doing the right thing. It's also about winning.

If you are explaining, you are losing.

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

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.

I don't twist arms. I shake hands.

Don't call the question unless you've got the votes.