Tom Graves Quotes

My purpose is to call on my colleagues, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, to get behind the agenda of trying to reform the government and make it work for the people rather than the other way around.

It shouldn't take a constitutional crisis or an attack on the nation to create honest dialogue in the Senate.

Now that we have the Senate and the House fully controlled by Republicans, we need to be working together.

The only bipartisan place in D.C. is Brooks Brothers.

I believe in working in a bipartisan manner.

If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.

If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand.

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

One of the things I give Nancy Pelosi a lot of credit for is that she's able to get things passed and hold her members together because she shows us that she's doing everything possible to get our views into these bills.

The Democratic support against Barker [72 to 25] was so strong that they didn't even need us Republicans.

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.

Don’t fear this campaign, my fellow Republicans, join it.

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

From an institution standpoint, I want the American people to understand that the Senate can function, even on the most serious things.

Bill Clinton worked with a Republican Congress. They certainly had their differences on many issues, but look at what they also accomplished. Welfare reform - that was maybe the most significant social policy achievement in two generations.

We have a lot of thoughtful people in the U.S. Senate.

I have a long, long record of working with Democrats and Republicans alike.

My belief is that despite all the media hoopla, there is much more that unites Republicans than divides us.

I get along with the Democrats, but please - I'm not their hero.

Republicans need to unite to succeed.

Part of the problem is that we don't have enough Democrats that will actually stand toe-to-toe with this bully Donald Trump and fight for the rights and values of this republic.

If Americans want President Trump to be successful, we must retire Speaker Ryan.

I think that we have to do everything we can to work together, Democrats and Republicans, and then if we go the initiative route like we have done in the past, go together.

You can't work across party lines when there aren't many of them. So I'm going to work across Republican Party lines because there are a lot of divisions in the Republican Party.

Parliament's job is to conduct discussions. But many a time, Parliament is used to ignore issues, and in such situations, obstruction of Parliament is in the favour of democracy. Therefore, parliamentary obstruction is not undemocratic.