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Bipartisanship Quotes

We’ve collected the best Bipartisanship Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Mike Huckabee, Richard Mourdock, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Christopher Buckley, Ben Domenech. Use them as an inspiration.

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I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.
Mike Huckabee
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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
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.
Christopher Buckley
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Evangelicals have, for decades, believed that the country was more conservative than not, more Christian than not. The bipartisanship on religious liberty and the civic faith of the country was conducive to that. Now they’ve woken up to a reality in the Obama years that this was a polite fiction.
Ben Domenech
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Bipartisanship and decency are thrown to the waste side because people want their party to win so badly.
Tyrus
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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
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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
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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
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I’m a strong believer in bipartisanship.
Mack McLarty
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
Campbell Brown
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The term bipartisanship, that’s a means to an end. That’s not something that I think you run on. I think you run on solutions.
John Delaney
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Bipartisanship has taken us to the brink of bankruptcy. We don’t need bipartisanship, we need application of principle… Where was the call for bipartisanship during the Obamacare debate? Not a single Republican voted for it. It wasn’t about bipartisanship, it was about having the votes to dictate your will.
Richard Mourdock
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People love to talk about the old bipartisanship. But it wasn’t really bipartisanship. Yeah, they had a different label. But they’re replaced now by people with basically the same views.
Tim Griffin
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Bipartisanship isn’t an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.
Tom Daschle
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let’s cooperate.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I’m a believer in bipartisanship.
John Kasich
18
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 Long
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I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.
Stephanie Herseth
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The one thing I’m convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It’s clearly something he enjoys personally.
Tucker Carlson
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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
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Where people are trying to split Americans from each other I want there desperately to be bipartisanship.
Elissa Slotkin
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I’m very concerned about the tone of politics in recent years. We’ve seen a decline in civility and bipartisanship, and a rapid increase in hostility between those who have differing opinions. I think this has led to the alienation of the public in governance, which jeopardizes democratic participation.
Kyrsten Sinema
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I do hope President Trump‘s calls for bipartisanship are genuine, and I also hope he takes the actions needed to unify the country.
Jeff Van Drew
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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