Mark Zandi Quotes

I want to support John Boehner in any way that I can, but we need to be pragmatic.

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.

Clearly, politics is a team sport. Trump is not so much of a team player.

Everybody in the world has to compromise. I don't know one person that gets everything they want, so the politicians are going to have to figure that out and stop pointing out, "He shook hands with a Democrat in 1989. He ate with a Republican last week." It's petty high school, even junior high stuff going on. It's junior high politics going on, so it's a shame.

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.

I hear from everybody, and they say 'Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense.' We're not hired to fight.

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

I've been intrigued by politics my whole life. And, yes, I am very close to the Clintons. I was a Hillary person until I was an Obama person. And she was a Hillary person, too, until she was an Obama one, evidently.

I'm a believer in bipartisanship.

I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they'd be willing to try.

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 reiterate that I am strongly committed to working with those on all sides of politics to improve how Parliament operates.

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.

What I like about Bain Capital is that we have Republicans, we have Democrats, we have independents; we are a diverse firm in terms of political views. But what we do is we sit down and we try to solve the problems.

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

I am conservative, there's no doubt about it. But you can be conservative and still work with people, and that's what my intentions are.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

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

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.

Gingrich, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, and Clinton passed legislation because they understood and appreciated the difficult political process. They fought for their principles yet recognized the need for compromise to get anything done.

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

I am from the Left, but I am happy to work with people from the Right.

I don't talk about politics. Not getting involved in politics at all.