Hillary Clinton Quotes

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

If we’re going to do all the things that the Constitution says that legitimately we can do as a country, … we have to be able to have a Congress where people can talk together like our Founding Fathers did.

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

The secret to legislative success in Virginia is courtesy, patience, and persistence; you usually get what you want. You won’t get it if you scream about it, and you won’t get it if you’re not willing to wait a long time.

Legislation is the art of compromise.

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.

In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

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

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

Do you know what it takes to get a good piece of legislation passed ... one that everyone agrees on? The egos. The turf battles.... It's incredible.

The Congress is the place where ordinary mortals go about the business of compromise—of compromise that gets us through the day.

I'm looking forward to going to Congress to pursue my Working Families Agenda and find areas of bipartisan agreement to move forward on important legislation.

The challenge has been, we make policy in the world of politics.

Ultimately, Congressional medicine is like veterinary medicine: It must be strong enough to work, and tasty enough to swallow.

As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they'd be willing to try.

I have an ability to work collegially across a wide range of interests in the caucus and in the Congress, and an ability to work on a bipartisan basis. Appropriators pride themselves on that.

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

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.

A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much...