Tucker Carlson Quotes

What Lincoln did is he gathered people around him the way that I believe President Obama is doing by calling Republicans, talking to them, trying to work with them. And when that happens, big things get solved.

I hope you'll find that my campaign was a reflection of how I plan to govern - bringing people together, building coalitions, and finding common ground.

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

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

I'm a believer in bipartisanship.

There's no room for petty grievances in politics.

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

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

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 wasn't looking for a hobby. If I were looking for a hobby, it wouldn't be the United States Senate. That's one of the toughest jobs I'd probably ever do. I just felt there wasn't enough compromise going on: People were too far to the left, too far to the right, with no one trying to build a compromise.

In the past, leaders of both parties have been able to reach across the partisan divide. They succeeded by retaining their own humanity and recognizing the same in their political opponents.

I think with the right leadership on both sides and the right president, we can get a lot done.

I'm a huge fan of bipartisanship and working together to get things done.

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

We'll get things done together. Democrats, Republicans, independents, we're going to make progress together when I'm president.

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

I'm willing to meet with anyone, Democrat or Republican, who has a good idea, an open mind and a willingness to come together to tackle the challenges we face.

The Republicans are coming - make nice.

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.

Politics is compromise.

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.

I would be open about the fact that, clearly, politicians should be able to speak to each other. David Cameron doesn't seem to accept this, but if the British people have voted then of course you have to try and provide good stable government.

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.