Paul Gosar Quotes

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

We have a constitution that says that the way you get things is by passing legislation, not by threatening to destroy the country unless you get your way.

You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.

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.

From time to time we must remind ourselves that the President has a role in the legislative process.

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.

A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.

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.

Congressmen take an independent oath to protect and defend the Constitution. They work with the President; they do not work for the President.

Bipartisanship is “the oil of national government.”

The way you get anything done in the Congress is through coalitions.

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

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

Sometimes the Senate really does rise above politics. It’s rare, but sometimes it happens.

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.

Any president has to work with Congress.

Legislating is a very human experience in which trust and mutual respect play critical roles.

I think Congress can pass a bill when the American people start regaining trust in the administration to actually do their job and enforce the laws that are already on the books.

After some of the most contentious years in state government, I've made it clear that I will, and can, work with anyone to get things done.

In politics, you have to compromise from morning to evening. Democracy is the art of compromise.

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.