Joel Osteen Quotes

I worked for President Bush and President Obama. I had Democratic bosses and Republican bosses. I believe in order to actually get things done, we do need to buckle down and often reach across the aisle.

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.

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

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.

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.

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

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

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

You have a Republican House, close numbers in the Senate, a Democratic president. If we're going to move forward at all as a country, we're going to have to do it by standing together.

If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.

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.

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

I'm a believer in bipartisanship.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

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

To get Congress working again, I'm dedicated to working with anyone who has an open mind, good ideas, and a willingness to work together.

Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand.

When everybody goes into their separate corners, it's just real easy to demonize the other side instead of saying, 'Okay, how can we come together and figure out how to get done what's important for the country?'

In a common project, we can bring together well-meaning people from the Left and the Right.

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.

It used to be that Democrats and Republicans would disagree, but they could be social to each other. There were times during the year that we acted together in the good of the country.

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