Lee Zeldin Quotes

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

I'm a believer in bipartisanship.

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

I think if you're going to get anything done in the Senate, you have to be on the same sheet of music. If you don't get people on the same sheet of music it comes out pretty horrible.

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

I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they'd be willing to try.

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.

Bipartisanship is “the oil of national government.”

Bipartisanship may be abnormal, but it does occur. The challenge is to explain why it occurs at all, and why it never lasts.

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.

I'd like to see that bipartisanship come back that we used to have in the House of Representatives, in the Clinton years. I think there's a possibility that the voters are going to send the message that everybody running - Congress, the Senate, the presidency - that they want us to come together.

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

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.

I reiterate that I am strongly committed to working with those on all sides of politics to improve how Parliament operates.

Periods of cooperation between political parties shouldn't be taken for granted; they are a stunning human achievement.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

Compromise is the oil that makes government go.

Virginians want you to work across the aisle.

I'm always looking for people on the other side of the aisle for any initiative I'm sponsoring - men and women - to move things forward.

Demanding an end to partisan bickering on foreign policy is not an unrealistic requirement.

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

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.