Brad Henry Quotes

When everybody goes into their separate corners, it's just real easy to demonize the other side instead of saying, 'Okay, how can we come together and figure out how to get done what's important for the country?'

The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics.

The more reasons for people to be willing to put their differences aside, the better.

Republicans - well, we're all part of the same family. We need to have some good disagreements with each other; we need to debate, but in the end, it's all about uniting, not dividing.

Where people are trying to split Americans from each other I want there desperately to be bipartisanship.

I think, more than anything, in times of crisis we should be shedding party labels.

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

So we should all, me included, stop fighting each other and arguing about our differences on certain policies.

I hear from everybody, and they say 'Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense.' We're not hired to fight.

If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today.

It's time to put our differences aside and find ways to work together to move Wisconsin forward.

There's no room for petty grievances in politics.

We aren't going to agree on everything and there will be other areas where we will be working together.

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.

Bipartisanship is “the oil of national government.”

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

The two parties should be turning to each other rather than on each other.

… our common interests far outweigh our differences

Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

I hope to see no in-fighting and lots of cooperation. We can either all be part of the problem, or part of the solution, but I think we will all work together well on the same team.

We have to transcend our differences to transform our future.

Through art, through people working together and building relationships and trust, people can overcome the problems of politics.

We want to move forward in a bipartisan fashion to solve our problems.

The most important thing is you should not be split or fighting each other.