Richard Lugar Quotes

We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.

Goodness knows, we have horrible problems to face in this Congress. I hope we can face them as colleagues in working unitedly for the people of this country and certainly not indulging in animosity or referring to each other as ''enemies.''

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

How to Turn Democrats & Republicans Into Americans

I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans; we are all Federalists.

Let us exalt patriotism and moderate our party contentions.

We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists

In a common project, we can bring together well-meaning people from the Left and the Right.

I just hope we can find our way back to engaging with one another, arguing strongly with one another, and then going down and having a root beer together or something and - and having a good laugh about it as we work together for the best interests of the next generation of Americans who are going to inherit this country.

It used to be that Democrats and Republicans would disagree, but they could be social to each other. There were times during the year that we acted together in the good of the country.

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

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 best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is.

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

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

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.

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.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?'

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.

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

Bipartisanship is “the oil of national government.”