Newt Gingrich Quotes

I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.

In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.

The middle in Congress is gone now. That is where we got most things done.

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

There's never a perfect bipartisan bill in the eyes of a partisan.

The degree of polarization that currently exists in Washington is such where I think it's fair to say if I presented a cure for cancer, getting legislation passed to move that forward would be a nail-biter.

I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.

I believe in working in a bipartisan manner.

Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn't receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators - a majority - voted in favor of the bill. Despite President Obama's actively lobbying against the bill, we still won the support of 11 Democrats.

I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.

The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.

I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform.

The Senate should not be a graveyard for good ideas.

Congress doesn’t quite speak clearly much of the time.

Governing in a polarized society means, making bipartisan deals.

You used to get legislation done by getting the moderates to agree. But we have no moderates now so it doesn’t get done

One of Mitt Romney’s spokespeople said, “we will not be dictated to by the fact checkers”. What that really means is “we will not be dictated to by the facts.” But the changing demographics is a fact. The Republicans may not compromise with the Democrats, but they are going to have to compromise with reality.

A politician’s task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible accord with the ideal and the principled.

We can work with anybody. I mean, we passed the 9/11 health bill with Tom Cotton. Most people would assume I wouldn't be able to work with Tom Cotton and Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.

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 may sound naive, since everyone's decided the next two years are going to be all about 2016, but I look at what's happened over the years when there's been divided government. That's when we've done tax reform, that's when we've done entitlement reform - to move this economy forward on these big issues.

While we always strive to reach 218 with Republican votes, sometimes that is not possible with divided government, and the story of a bill that passed with 150 Republican votes is much more positive and assertive than the story of a bill that passes with 79 Republican votes.

I think it's a time to be sad about what's been done to the United States Senate, the greatest deliberative body in the world.

I have, year after year, been named the most bipartisan member of the whole United States Senate. I have proved my independence.