Tom Allen Quotes

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.

In a divided government, you can't just say, 'It's my way or the highway.'

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

Bipartisanship is “the oil of national government.”

The two parties should be turning to each other rather than on each other.

I wasn't looking for a hobby. If I were looking for a hobby, it wouldn't be the United States Senate. That's one of the toughest jobs I'd probably ever do. I just felt there wasn't enough compromise going on: People were too far to the left, too far to the right, with no one trying to build a compromise.

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

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

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.

Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.

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

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.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

This is good government. We have divided government. To make divided government work you can’t ask each other to compromise core principles…. We ask each other to find common ground for the common good.

I am from the Left, but I am happy to work with people from the Right.

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

I think, more than anything, in times of crisis we should be shedding party labels.

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.

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

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.

I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.

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