Don Lemon Quotes

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

Where people are trying to split Americans from each other I want there desperately to be bipartisanship.

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

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

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.

The things that divide us in politics are infinitesimal compared with the dignity of our common humanity.

Republicans - well, we're all part of the same family. We need to have some good disagreements with each other; we need to debate, but in the end, it's all about uniting, not dividing.

We must work together as Americans in a bipartisan fashion.

But until Democrats and Republicans, blacks and whites, liberal activists and conservative activists decide division is no longer the most valuable unit of currency, there will be no solutions of any kind.

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

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

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.

I'm going to reach out to everybody, Democrat, Republican and independent. I'm going to work with all the people in the district, and whether they're an 'R' or a 'D' doesn't matter.

A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.

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.

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

I know Barack Obama. And I believe that as president, he'll pursue the common good by seeking common ground rather than trying to divide us.

I'm a believer in bipartisanship.

This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.

What I like about Bain Capital is that we have Republicans, we have Democrats, we have independents; we are a diverse firm in terms of political views. But what we do is we sit down and we try to solve the problems.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

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.''

Polarized positions are an indulgence which … the nation cannot afford.

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.