Quotes About Bipartisanship

#1. We have two parties here, and only two. One is the evil party, and the other is the stupid party. ... I'm very proud to be a member of the stupid party. ... Occasionally, the two parties get together to do something that's both evil and stupid. That's called bipartisanship.

M. Stanton Evans

#2. What I've said about compromise, I hope to build a conservative majority so bipartisanship becomes Democrats joining Republicans to roll back the size of government, reduce the bureaucracy, and get America moving again.

Richard Mourdock

#3. 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.

Thomas Frank

#4. Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

Tom Daschle

#5. I'd like to see that bipartisanship come back that we used to have in the House of Representatives, in the Clinton years. I think there's a possibility that the voters are going to send the message that everybody running - Congress, the Senate, the presidency - that they want us to come together.

Bill Richardson

#6. Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

Nancy Pelosi

#7. I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

Mack McLarty

#8. I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It's a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter.

James Wolcott

#9. The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?'

Colin Powell

#10. It may be that only when xenophobia stops working as an election winner will the way be cleared for a return to bipartisanship

Donald Horne

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

Brad Henry

#12. We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.

Richard Lugar

#13. I'm a believer in bipartisanship.

John Kasich

#14. Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.

Rand Paul

#15. I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.

Thomas Frank

#16. There are only two (major) parties today: The Stupid Party and The Evil Party. Once in a while the two parties get together to do something that is both stupid and evil, and that's called Bipartisanship.

Thomas Woods

#17. Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone.

Wendy E. Long

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

Olympia Snowe

#19. The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.

Tucker Carlson

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

Stephanie Herseth

#21. The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.

John F. Kerry

#22. I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.

Mike Huckabee

#23. Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

Reince Priebus

#24. We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle.

Richard Mourdock

#25. Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#26. Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.

Mark McKinnon

#27. I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.

Richard Mourdock

#28. Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

Christopher Buckley

#29. We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

Thomas Jefferson

#30. There are not enough purple states. No one votes in primaries, except the most ideological. And big money comes in to support or oppose the candidates in those primaries.

Evan Bayh

#31. The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.

Christopher Hitchens