Mitch Daniels Quotes

I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.

When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

We must have courage to set partisanship aside and embrace the best ideas and solutions no matter which side of the aisle they come from.

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.

I think it's very important to get ego out of the room. I think it's important to realize it takes two hands to clap - stop the pointing, stop the blame game. I think we've seen enough of that, I think the country is tired of it. I think they want to see Washington function, they want to see action.

For me, I have no political ego in this thing with respect to any other leader and what they might feel is appropriate or necessary in what they're going to try to do... We need everybody on the front lines.

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

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.

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.

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.

Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.

Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.

Bipartisanship is “the oil of national government.”

Sometimes the Senate really does rise above politics. It’s rare, but sometimes it happens.

Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

We want to move forward in a bipartisan fashion to solve our problems.

Where people are trying to split Americans from each other I want there desperately to be bipartisanship.

We need more leaders in Congress who are willing to bring people together to solve problems and protect the American Dream for all hardworking Kentuckians.

If I have learned anything from my time in Congress, it is that the only way we are going to solve the big problems our country faces is by working together.

The challenges our state faces must be met with the best solutions and ideas we can muster - and good ideas and good people reside on both sides of the aisle.

Every one of us in Congress has a responsibility to keep working together and stay focused on what matters.

I will do my part every day to work with my colleagues in a bipartisan fashion to unite us, and not divide us.

We are one America. If we work together across party lines, there's no problem we can't solve and the 21st century will be America's greatest century.

I expect the ruling and opposition parties to work together for the future of Taiwan.

I think that to the extent that we focus on problems where we can build a moral and a political consensus, then I think that we move the country forward and when we are divided and our politics is focused on dividing, then I think we're less successful, not just from the perspective of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party but from the perspective of the nation as a whole.