John Lewis Quotes

I think it is important that we go and bring both of the parties together. The more we go to the left, the more we go to the right, I believe of what President Eisenhower said, "Politics is like the road. The left and the right represents the gutter, and the middle is drivable."

In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.

I will do my part every day to work with my colleagues in a bipartisan fashion to unite us, and not divide us.

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

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

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.

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

Folks are really tired of this rabid division between Republicans and Democrats. Folks want people to come together and solve the problems and the challenges of America.

Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.

When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

I'm a believer in bipartisanship.

We aren't as divided as we think we are. We're not just Republicans sitting in one corner, and Democrats sitting in the other corner.

Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.

Bipartisanship is “the oil of national government.”

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

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

To get Congress working again, I'm dedicated to working with anyone who has an open mind, good ideas, and a willingness to work together.

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.

In a common project, we can bring together well-meaning people from the Left and the Right.

We want to move forward in a bipartisan fashion to solve our problems.

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

If I have learned anything from my time in Congress, it is that the only way we are going to solve the big problems our country faces is by working together.

I do hope President Trump's calls for bipartisanship are genuine, and I also hope he takes the actions needed to unify the country.

If politicians of both parties would spend more time legislating and less time attacking each other, we would all be better off.