Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

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

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.

In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.

Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.

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.

It is past time for Democrats and Republicans to join together to create a bipartisan coalition for courage and common sense.

If politicians of both parties would spend more time legislating and less time attacking each other, we would all be better off.

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

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

It doesn't really matter what party you come from. I think the people appreciate that and they know that you're working together, that you can provide the kind of leadership to bring both of the parties together, and do the kind of things that need to be done for the state.

When I was in office I expressed admiration and respect and even affection for Republicans that I knew and liked and cared about, and I tried to find ways to work with them. I think the Democrats should do that, and just keep trying to lower the temperature.

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

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.

When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.

I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.

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

Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

I think if you're going to get anything done in the Senate, you have to be on the same sheet of music. If you don't get people on the same sheet of music it comes out pretty horrible.

I'm a believer in bipartisanship.

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

We aren't as divided as we think we are. We're not just Republicans sitting in one corner, and Democrats sitting in the other corner.

What I like about Bain Capital is that we have Republicans, we have Democrats, we have independents; we are a diverse firm in terms of political views. But what we do is we sit down and we try to solve the problems.

Bipartisanship is “the oil of national government.”