Teresa Heinz Quotes

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

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

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

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

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

The term bipartisanship, that's a means to an end. That's not something that I think you run on. I think you run on solutions.

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.

My definition of bipartisanship is Democrats agreeing with Republicans

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.

I'm perhaps not the most tribal of politicians. Working in a mature and adult way where you recognise what your shared goal is and you manage to work towards that... that is not something which I think would be particularly more difficult with Labour than it is with the Conservatives.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

I think that people have to reward those individuals who are prepared to work across the political aisle. I don't see any other way; if you don't talk to people with whom you disagree, you're never going to solve problems.

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

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

I'm a believer in bipartisanship.

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.

Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.

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

Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.

In the first weeks of the Obama administration, 'bipartisanship' was the reigning buzzword, and when the Beltway thinks 'bipartisan,' it pictures President Reagan and Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill putting aside their differences and forging a legislative partnership, a ruddy pair of genial patriarchs bonding over the Blarney Stone.

Goodness knows, we have horrible problems to face in this Congress. I hope we can face them as colleagues in working unitedly for the people of this country and certainly not indulging in animosity or referring to each other as ''enemies.''

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

When you hang the 'bipartisan' tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out, and there's a broad agreement that that's the way forward.

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