Eric Cantor Quotes

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.

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

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.

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

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

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

I think if you're going to get anything done in the Senate, you have to be on the same sheet of music. If you don't get people on the same sheet of music it comes out pretty horrible.

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.

I was entirely comfortable reaching across the Senate aisle to work with Democrats.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

Too often bipartisanship is equated with centrism or deal-cutting. Bipartisanship is not the opposite of principle. One can be very conservative or very liberal and still have a bipartisan mind-set. Such a mind-set acknowledges that the other party is also patriotic and may have some good ideas. It acknowledges that national unity is important, and that aggressive partisanship deepens cynicism, sharpens political vendettas and depletes the national reserve of good will that is critical to our survival in hard times

… our common interests far outweigh our differences

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.

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

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

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

We are one America. If we work together across party lines, there's no problem we can't solve and the 21st century will be America's greatest century.

My heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization Less mindless partisanship, which at times sounds almost hateful to the ear of Americans. How we conduct ourselves and how we treat you, Judge Roberts, can be a great start toward reconciliation in our country.

The message to both parties should be right now that we need to find ways to work together to speak to the American public.

I think the administration can do a lot of good by telling folks that are on their side of the aisle, look, we may have lost the election on the Democrat side, but it's time to come together.

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

I'd like to see that bipartisanship come back that we used to have in the House of Representatives, in the Clinton years. I think there's a possibility that the voters are going to send the message that everybody running - Congress, the Senate, the presidency - that they want us to come together.

We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.