Jason Chaffetz Quotes

Since joining the U.S. House of Representatives in November of 2006, I have strongly supported Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I have the utmost respect for her, and I believe the Democrats were able to accomplish a great deal under her leadership.

I believe in working in a bipartisan manner.

My father was on the Judiciary Committee all 18 years. He had a good personal relationship with Jim Eastland. They probably didn't agree on practically anything, or very little, from a public policy standpoint. But they were willing to work through that to see what they could get done just because they knew each other and liked each other.

When Senator McCain reaches across the aisle to find Democrats to support efforts to make America stronger, he finds plenty of us standing, willing to help him and many other Republican leaders.

My purpose is to call on my colleagues, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, to get behind the agenda of trying to reform the government and make it work for the people rather than the other way around.

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.

When I first came to the Senate, people in both parties went out of their way to have personal relationships.

The way I've gotten things done is by working with Democrats and Republicans. I worked with Jay Rockefeller, for example, on highway safety issues.

I share good relationships with politicians from all parties.

There is nothing that I didn't get to do while I was serving in Congress - except be in the majority.

I think that our leadership, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, are taking the right approach.

Obama's numbers fell by a slightly larger amount over his first few months because he enjoyed much more support right at the start from Republicans, support that eroded quickly.

[Donald Trump] has had the good judgment and common sense to get back with all these people, who have written the legislation already.

I've campaigned many, many times together with Senator McCain. He's campaigned for me; I've campaigned for him, good friend.

What I said to the members [of Congress] who hoped they would be chairmen: let's don't have that problem. Be thinking now about legislation that you have, preferably that enjoys some Democratic support because we certainly didn't think we were going to have 60 and we don't.

It is an honor to join my former colleague in Congress, Jim McCrery, and the very talented team at Capitol Counsel.

In the House, I was named one of the most bipartisan members of Congress, and that's a title I plan on continuing to hold in the Senate.

The Trump team recognizes the importance of the House Freedom Caucus.

I'm confident that Senate Republicans will put up a very strong and valiant effort to continue doing what we're united around.

I think Paul Ryan would make a great speaker. And people like him are the kinds of people that we need.

I just want to work with legislative council members from across the political spectrum to get things done.

We will face the challenges head on. We will work with both parties, across the aisle, to make our state better.

Jon Tester has been a loyal, loyal, reliable vote for Chuck Schumer.

I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.

I'm perhaps not the most tribal of politicians. Working in a mature and adult way where you recognise what your shared goal is and you manage to work towards that... that is not something which I think would be particularly more difficult with Labour than it is with the Conservatives.