Bipartisan Politics Quotes

The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.

There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between politicians of either major party.

Our political system is based on two parties fighting to capture the middle. Unfortunately the Republican party has been captured by conservative extremists.

I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on both sides - not just anti-Republican, which is a real popular thing for a rap artist to do. If you dis Republicans, nobody will get mad. I think the two-party system sucks. It's absolutely ignorant.

What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress.

They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.

I like and respect Elisabeth Hasselbeck so much. I'm from a political party that represents half the country.

We have a bipartisan congressional task force against anti-Semitism, that's fantastic.

In the first weeks of the Obama administration, 'bipartisanship' was the reigning buzzword, and when the Beltway thinks 'bipartisan,' it pictures President Reagan and Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill putting aside their differences and forging a legislative partnership, a ruddy pair of genial patriarchs bonding over the Blarney Stone.

You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.

Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.

The U. S. Senate rejects multilateral treaties as if it were a sport. Some it rejects outright… Others it rejects through inaction: dozens of treaties are pending before the Senate.

Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.

There are things we can do [with violence], and we ought to do it in a bipartisan way.

There's no place for a third party in the United States.

I think I can do more inside the Republican Party to keep it in the center of the road. That's where Eisenhower was. And I'm an unabashed Eisenhower Republican.

They didn't want Donald Trump to win. They didn't think he was gonna win. They never thought they would be in this position. They may not even like being in this position because they don't want this kind of pressure on 'em. They don't want to have to move his agenda. The Republicans in Washington are identical with the Democrats when it comes to the big issue, and that's immigration. Both parties want amnesty.

I don't have the luxury of just hanging out in my primary and, once I win the primary, I'm fine. I have to talk to Democrats and Republicans.

Some presidents, such as Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy, are political sailors - they tack with the wind, reaching difficult policy objectives through bipartisan maneuvering and pulse-taking.

America needs a bipartisan foreign policy that is predictable, pragmatic, and understandable.

I tend to vote Republican, but I don't like the hardcore views on either side, and I'm not in bed with anybody.

Barack Obama would have been seen as a liberal Republican—a kind of Rockefeller Republican in the 1960s. He is at most a centrist. To think of him as somebody in the left is often almost laughable.

There's a huge cost in being bipartisan, a tradition started by Newt Gingrich when he took over the House in 1994 and has continued forward, that you dare not vote against the Republican Party even if you're voting against your own initiatives and your own interests.

I was the Republican governor of the heavily Democratic state of New Mexico. I focused on good government, and I got it done - just like my running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld. The people of New Mexico reelected me by a comfortable margin. Ditto for Weld.

When I arrived in the Senate, the moderate so-called Rockefeller Republicans held the balance of power.