Todd Young Quotes

Ultimately, Congressional medicine is like veterinary medicine: It must be strong enough to work, and tasty enough to swallow.

The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

You can't have your own way in Congress.

You can't write laws in America if you don't compromise.

If we want to influence the discussion in Congress, we can't oppose everything.

Legislation is the art of compromise.

Consensus is the essence of the legislative process.

What will happen is the bills will start out the way we like them; in order to move them - we'll probably have to make compromises. That's the way the legislative process works when it's functioning.

When you hang the 'bipartisan' tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out, and there's a broad agreement that that's the way forward.

Bills ought to be passed with deliberation by committees. Change should be achieved in a bipartisan manner. Incrementally, day by day, we should reach a consensus - not perfect, by any means - but something that we can be proud of, nonetheless.

The Senate is allowed to work the way it was designed to - meaning a place where nothing is decided without a good dose of deliberation and debate, as well as input from both the majority and minority parties - it arrives at a result that is acceptable to people all along the political spectrum.

The process of forming government in a minority is one where you talk to everyone and see: What do you have in common? And is there enough commonality?

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

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

Compromise is what it's got to be all about when you're governing, because no one is ever going to have a big enough majority to just do what they want to do all the time.

You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

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

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.

If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about it, but if the task force can't come up with the bill, I'm going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we've been working on now for a year or two and just go for it.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

I believe in working in a bipartisan manner.

If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.