George P. Bush Quotes

I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.

What I've found in being around political people is they're willing to negotiate their ideology somewhere around 5 percent. They believe that's really stepping out. And it's really hard to do business when you only move 5 percent from your ideology.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

Compromise is the oil that makes government go.

There is never just one way in politics.

I think with the right leadership on both sides and the right president, we can get a lot done.

The difference between me and people like Murray Rothbard is that, though I want to know what my ideal is, I think I also have to be willing to discuss changes that are less than ideal so long as they point me in that direction.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

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

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.

I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

The Republicans are coming - make nice.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

In a divided government, you can't just say, 'It's my way or the highway.'

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.

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.

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

Politics is the art of the possible.

It is possible for political forces to agree.

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.