Mark McKinnon Quotes

I've done work for both Democrats and Republicans.

My Republican compatriots do not feel that people ought to work with Democrats across the aisle—Compromise is a bad word.

I have a long, long record of working with Democrats and Republicans alike.

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

In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

I love the Upper West Side. I walk down the street all the time and am stopped by Democrats. I don't think they've ever actually met a Republican before.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.

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.

In Georgia, agriculture is one area where Democrats and Republicans consistently reached across the aisle and work together.

I'm always looking for people on the other side of the aisle for any initiative I'm sponsoring - men and women - to move things forward.

Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

[Barack Obama] needs to really engage both Republicans and Democrats.

The truth is that America has been closely divided politically for quite some time. That was reflected in some of the challenges I had with the Republican Congress.

Washington is broken. I know what it takes to get this country back, and will work with good Democrats and good Republicans to do that.

I think that we have to do everything we can to work together, Democrats and Republicans, and then if we go the initiative route like we have done in the past, go together.

The only way we're gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.

Hillary Clinton has a real history of uniting people, of being able to work with both Republicans and Democrats, of trying to fight for people's equal rights. Whereas we really see the polar opposite in her opponent.

One of the positives of the Illinois delegation is the congressmen and women work together on issues of local concern in a lot of different ways.

I grew up in Illinois. If you were in Chicago, you were a Democrat. You get out to the suburbs and central Illinois, you're a Republican.

Democrats, more often than not, do not play the game of politics correctly.

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

I will do my part every day to work with my colleagues in a bipartisan fashion to unite us, and not divide us.

I worked for President Bush and President Obama. I had Democratic bosses and Republican bosses. I believe in order to actually get things done, we do need to buckle down and often reach across the aisle.