Bipartisan Quotes

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.
Gwen Moore

Forward, Vote, Voting

This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.
Sam Brownback

Good, Sense, Effort

I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform.
Judy Biggert

Time, Find, Before

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.
John Cornyn

Voting, Here, Used

The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence.
John Cornyn

Success, Women, Home

So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society.
Harold Ford

Hope, Society, Support

With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.
Sue Kelly

Education, Important, Learn

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.
Sue Kelly

Through, Last, Effort

We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.
Ruben Hinojosa

Work, Home, Job

I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.
Don Nickles

Good, Support, Pass

Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).
Thomas E. Mann

Political, Themselves, Risk

You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.
James Carville

Nothing, Another, Rather

I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's an issue that's going to require I think some strong bipartisan cooperation and leadership.
John Thune

Leadership, Strong, Issues

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

Important, Afraid, Nation

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.
David E. Price

Understand, Congress, Capacity

I believe that as a nation we must have a bipartisan discussion about how to best preserve and protect Social Security for our seniors and for future generations of Americans.
Steve Israel

Best, Future, Nation

President Obama has ignored or dismissed proposals that would address our anti-competitive tax code and unsustainable trajectory of federal debt - including his own bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - and submitted no plan for entitlement reform.
Glenn Hubbard

Plan, Debt, President

Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting.
Earl Blumenauer

Game, Working, Fighting

We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report.
Richard Ben-Veniste

Time, Fear, Integrity

Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of Texas House members just last fall. You know, we've had almost 200,000 OTMs - the government categorizes OT 'other, other than Mexicans' - along the Mexican border.
Henry Bonilla

Government, Crisis, Last

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.
Kenneth Blackwell

Change, Reality, System

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
Lamar Alexander

Country, Goal, Big

The only bipartisan place in D.C. is Brooks Brothers.
Tony Hale

Place, Brothers, Brooks

I'm excited about seeing a bipartisan plan to reform education in the United States. The only other option is to protect the status quo and I really don't think anybody wants to do that.
John Rowland

Education, Plan, United

These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a bipartisan spirit and with our international partners if we are going to achieve progress and peace now and for future generations.
Susan Collins

Work, Peace, Home

I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.
Stephanie Herseth

Compromise, Worked

I believe in working in a bipartisan manner.
Erskine Bowles

Working, Manner

The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest.
Erskine Bowles

Best, Death, Forward

I'm a Democrat, but I'm really bipartisan - some people might say nonpartisan.
Mark Pryor

Might, Democrat

There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this state right now. We need to recapture the big bipartisan spirit for conservation.
Rob McKenna

Education, Big, Around

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