Bipartisan Agreement Quotes

When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know it's got legs.

House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.

America doesn’t need a third party; it needs a second one.

You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

We've always said a filibuster is not appropriate for judicial nominees. A filibuster is a legislative tool designed to extract compromises. A judicial nominee is a person. You can't take the arm or leg of a nominee.

Republicans and Democrats agree that this should be done, $2.5 trillion. I happen to think it's double that. It's probably $5 trillion that we can't bring into our country.

We've had a tone-deaf White House that does not want to be reasonable. President Obama won't meet with the Republicans. It's all his way.

The Congress talks and talks and talks and talks, but doesn't act. I'm going to continue to work with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to bring about comprehensive immigration reform.

Has Washington become so dysfunctional that even when we all agree on something, we can’t get it done?

The critical role of Congress in the adoption of international agreements was clearly laid out by our Founding Fathers in our Constitution. And it's a principle upon which Democrats and Republicans have largely agreed.

There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.

Obama's policies have been approximately the same as Bush's, though there have been some slight differences, but that's not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush's policies.

Congress needs to work in a bipartisan way to fix the Affordable Care Act, not repeal it.

I believe that in both parties, Democrat and Republican, support for Israel is bipartisan, it is strong and it is unwavering, and I don't see that changing.

Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.

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

My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.

In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction.

I won't support any budget, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat budget, that doesn't lead to balance.

I've never seen a constructive Social Security debate that started with one side digging in, in one place and another side digging into another.

Unemployment relief from The CARES Act - a popular and bipartisan solution - was a key lifeline not just for our families but also for small businesses.

My belief is that despite all the media hoopla, there is much more that unites Republicans than divides us.

This isn't a Republican issue. This isn't a Democrat issue. This is something that both parties and people around the country have agreed to. They don't want Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States.

Nothing gets done (in Congress) unless it's bipartisan. And the reason that matters is that it's a function of reality.

Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful.