Olympia Snowe Quotes

The way I've gotten things done is by working with Democrats and Republicans. I worked with Jay Rockefeller, for example, on highway safety issues.

I just want to work with legislative council members from across the political spectrum to get things done.

While I am grateful for the friendships and relationships that I have with my Republican colleagues, it would be naive to pretend that those friendships will change the way that major policies are enacted in Arizona.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.

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.

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.

I prefer a simple bill which deals with a single basic issue. When you add new provisions to a bill you develop a larger coalition of opposition. Each new provision brings in more opponents who combine with the existing opponents until you no longer can pass the law.

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm always looking for people on the other side of the aisle for any initiative I'm sponsoring - men and women - to move things forward.

When I first came to the Senate, people in both parties went out of their way to have personal relationships.

You'll never get progress in Washington until you have a majority, bipartisan majority, that really wants to solve problems.

I really focus on making sure that we pass good policy. I don't mind throwing my elbows around to get it done.

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.

I told New Jerseyans that I would find ways to work for commonsense, bipartisan solutions to some of our greatest challenges.

Throughout my time in Congress, I've made it my priority to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, to look past partisanship and to help pass commonsense legislation so we can help working families in Nevada and across our country.

The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.

I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government.

[Barack Obama] needs to really engage both Republicans and Democrats.

We could come together, Democrats and Republicans, to find practical, commonsense solutions to health care, to education, to energy issues, because although I'm a proud Democrat, I'm a prouder American. And I think all of us believe, regardless of our party affiliations, that this is a critical time, where we've got to solve big problems.