Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

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

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.

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.

Good governance requires working toward common ground. It isn't easy.

We cannot agree on everything but we must agree on the framework.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

The Republicans are coming - make nice.

But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that.

I believe any time that both parties are talking, it's a good thing.

It is possible for political forces to agree.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

True bipartisanship isn’t talking about it. It’s delivering it.

Encourage a readiness to find consensus.

If we can’t agree on the facts, how can we agree on the solutions?

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.

One of the ways usually that you build a bipartisan agreement is one side gives up a little, and the other side gives up a little.

In a common project, we can bring together well-meaning people from the Left and the Right.

I think it is possible to meet people in the middle, to have a discussion even though you may not agree on solutions, and find some common ground and get to consensus.

We must work together as Americans in a bipartisan fashion.

I hope you'll find that my campaign was a reflection of how I plan to govern - bringing people together, building coalitions, and finding common ground.

In a deeply divided country we must either work together to get the best deal we can - and this needs compromise - or accept that Brexit cannot be implemented and think again about what we are doing.