Charles E. Schumer Quotes

I'm going to work with Republicans when they do things I agree with and I'm going to fight Republicans when they're doing things that I think are damaging.

When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.

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

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.

I do hope that next year Republicans and Democrats will do nothing.

My Republican compatriots do not feel that people ought to work with Democrats across the aisle—Compromise is a bad word.

Though she is a proud native of one of the most famously liberal cities in the country, Feinstein has earned a reputation over the years in the Senate as someone eager to work across the aisle with Republicans.

I don't enjoy politics. I like to get things done, and I like Republicans and Democrats, and that doesn't always work well.

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

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

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

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

Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.

The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.

The Republicans are coming - make nice.

I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.

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

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

I really don't think there's a lack of good will between members of the parties. I go back a long way with a lot of Republicans, so I don't think it's personal. But there does seem to be a much greater gap in both the philosophy and emphasis on partisan victories as opposed to policy development.

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.

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.

I'm a believer in bipartisanship.