Tony Blair Quotes

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

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

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

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

I'm a believer in bipartisanship.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

Bipartisanship is “the oil of national government.”

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 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.

I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.

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.

Goodness knows, we have horrible problems to face in this Congress. I hope we can face them as colleagues in working unitedly for the people of this country and certainly not indulging in animosity or referring to each other as ''enemies.''

This is good government. We have divided government. To make divided government work you can’t ask each other to compromise core principles…. We ask each other to find common ground for the common good.

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.

John McCain felt very strongly about virtually every issue that he tackled, but it was never based in partisanship. He didn't try to score partisan points as he worked on issues. He would work with anyone who wanted to accomplish the goal that he shared.

We owe it to the American people to set aside the areas where our ideology may prevent progress and find common ground where there are plenty of opportunities to produce good results.

Every one of us in Congress has a responsibility to keep working together and stay focused on what matters.

I'm a huge fan of bipartisanship and working together to get things done.

I have long-since said that working... together and accomplishing things in a bipartisan way doesn't mean compromising your values.

We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.

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

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

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

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