Bipartisan Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (B) Quotes

We need to build on the success of Social Security by developing bold and innovative ways for Americans to build wealth and save for retirement. I believe we can work together in a bipartisan manner to accomplish these goals.

- Debbie Stabenow

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

- Don Nickles

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

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there`s a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

- Norman Lear

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

- Nancy Pelosi

I think the public is going to be open to the idea that there should be an independent, bipartisan investigation and I think the Democrats are going to fight hard and not let this issue die.

- David Barrett

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

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.

- Alba Quinones

I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy.

- Alex Noble

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.

- Alexander Hamilton

I think Social Security should be bipartisan and it should transcend the next election, and you should get the best ideas of the Democrats and of the Republicans, and move forward with the best.

- Alfred Bernhard Nobel

I welcome the Democrats` ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

- Alfred Bernhard Nobel

The 9/11 Commission Report underscores the need for an all-out, comprehensive and bipartisan effort to defeat terrorism and improve homeland security.

- Alice Gilborn

Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.

- Alice Golembo

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.

- Alisa Gravitz

It`s time for America to rally behind a bipartisan agenda that means jobs and growth and billions of dollars of new capital spending.

- Alison Adburgham

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.

- Allen Questrom

One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work together from both the North and the South in order to draw attention to the resources that are needed along the Mississippi River.

- Andre Heard

It`s time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It`s time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.

- Andre Johnson

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.

- Andreas Schurig

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.

- Andrej Meszaros

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

- Andrej Meszaros

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.

- Andres Avila

Instead of leading the country to bipartisan comprehensive reform, ... he runs more of a danger of putting gasoline on the fire.

- Antwi Atuahene