Jesse Ventura Quotes

I believe in working in a bipartisan manner.

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

I'm a believer in bipartisanship.

And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.

I was entirely comfortable reaching across the Senate aisle to work with Democrats.

One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.

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.

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

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.

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

I expect the ruling and opposition parties to work together for the future of Taiwan.

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.

The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.

We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.

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.

The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.

In the first weeks of the Obama administration, 'bipartisanship' was the reigning buzzword, and when the Beltway thinks 'bipartisan,' it pictures President Reagan and Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill putting aside their differences and forging a legislative partnership, a ruddy pair of genial patriarchs bonding over the Blarney Stone.

Bipartisanship is “the oil of national government.”

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

The best way to unite the country is to have a good national government.

I remember thinking that there was no problem that we [government] couldn't resolve.