Mack McLarty Quotes

I'm a believer in bipartisanship.

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

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

Bipartisanship is “the oil of national government.”

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

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

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Bipartisanship may be abnormal, but it does occur. The challenge is to explain why it occurs at all, and why it never lasts.

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

If you really want to get something done in Washington, it has to be done in a bi-Partisan way.

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.

Believe it or not, one of the things I try to do around here is try to look for opportunities to work with people across the aisle. I know that's not the common narrative. But the truth is if you want to get anything done, that's an absolute requirement.

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.

In the past, leaders of both parties have been able to reach across the partisan divide. They succeeded by retaining their own humanity and recognizing the same in their political opponents.