Jon Tester Quotes

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

I have long-since said that working... together and accomplishing things in a bipartisan way doesn't mean compromising your values.

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.

Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand.

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

I'll be reaching across the aisle to find opportunities to work with Democrats on the issues that desperately need to be addressed.

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

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.

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.

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

I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.

Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

Bipartisanship is “the oil of national government.”

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

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

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

Even if we don't agree, we should agree to work together.

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

I'd like to see that bipartisanship come back that we used to have in the House of Representatives, in the Clinton years. I think there's a possibility that the voters are going to send the message that everybody running - Congress, the Senate, the presidency - that they want us to come together.

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

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