Jo Bonner Quotes

I think that we have to do everything we can to work together, Democrats and Republicans, and then if we go the initiative route like we have done in the past, go together.

I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.

While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.

I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.

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

Bipartisanship is “the oil of national government.”

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

The Republicans would like to be the co-pilots in the foreign policy take-offs as well as in the crash landings.

If you really want to get something done in Washington, it has to be done in a bi-Partisan way.

This is good government. We have divided government. To make divided government work you can’t ask each other to compromise core principles…. We ask each other to find common ground for the common good.

My father was on the Judiciary Committee all 18 years. He had a good personal relationship with Jim Eastland. They probably didn't agree on practically anything, or very little, from a public policy standpoint. But they were willing to work through that to see what they could get done just because they knew each other and liked each other.

Collaborate, don't dictate.

I think the amount of love and trust on Capitol Hill is often in short supply, and having more dogs here would probably make this place work better and maybe in a more bipartisan manner.

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.

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

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

[Donald Trump] has had the good judgment and common sense to get back with all these people, who have written the legislation already.

The audience is not your boss. They are your collaborators and when you collaborate with someone you don't have to listen to everything they think or say.

I applaud the fact that the president has reached out to the members of Judiciary Committee. And I applaud... the fact that he has been meeting with members of the Judiciary Committee. He's been seeking out Republicans as well as Democrats.

I'm perhaps not the most tribal of politicians. Working in a mature and adult way where you recognise what your shared goal is and you manage to work towards that... that is not something which I think would be particularly more difficult with Labour than it is with the Conservatives.

When I showed up at the RNC for my first meeting, I expected them to be my enemy. I was told that by many in Trump world. But I learned very quickly that for everyone to be successful, we need to be working hand in hand.

As politics is not subtraction but addition, those who share views and ideas need to join forces and they have to cooperate with political opponents even after they win an election.

I have long-since said that working... together and accomplishing things in a bipartisan way doesn't mean compromising your values.

The Senate has a reputation as quite a collegial place, and I have found that to be true, especially with the women.

The idea that two political parties can't come together to get a mission done is foreign to me - and unacceptable.