Cross-Party Collaboration Quotes

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

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

I have been inspired by the way that Ken Clarke has navigated parliament. I am actively looking across the House for people I really respect and warm to and can learn things from.

If politicians of both parties would spend more time legislating and less time attacking each other, we would all be better off.

I have, year after year, been named the most bipartisan member of the whole United States Senate. I have proved my independence.

There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists.

I'm always looking for an opportunity to bring progressive Democrats together with some conservative libertarian types, because there are places where we can agree.

I expect the ruling and opposition parties to work together for the future of Taiwan.

We'll get things done together. Democrats, Republicans, independents, we're going to make progress together when I'm president.

When I first came to the Senate, people in both parties went out of their way to have personal relationships.

The nation, as you know, is at a critical point. At a time like this we can't risk partisan bickering and political posturing. Our leaders have to reach across the aisle to do the people's work.

Believe it or not, one of the things I try to do around here is try to look for opportunities to work with people across the aisle. I know that's not the common narrative. But the truth is if you want to get anything done, that's an absolute requirement.

I was entirely comfortable reaching across the Senate aisle to work with Democrats.

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

I'm a believer in bipartisanship.

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

Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn't have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.

Democrats and Republicans should get together and unite for the good of our country and for the good of the American people.

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.

As a Republican, I never expected to be working with Hillary Clinton.

Maybe the Tory party might, instead of telling the Brexit Party what to do, make an approach to the Brexit Party and say I'll tell you what, we'll stand aside in certain areas. That would be a very positive thing for me, let's work together for a new kind of politics.

The left are not bipartisan. Somebody give me an example of left-wing bipartisanship. They don't even define it the way we do. Bipartisanship, as they define it, as in we cave on our core beliefs and agree with them. That is bipartisanship. There is no compromise.

I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.

I'll be reaching across the aisle to find opportunities to work with Democrats on the issues that desperately need to be addressed.

My definition of bipartisanship is Democrats agreeing with Republicans