Jonathan Haidt Quotes

The Congress is the place where ordinary mortals go about the business of compromise—of compromise that gets us through the day.

If we’re going to do all the things that the Constitution says that legitimately we can do as a country, … we have to be able to have a Congress where people can talk together like our Founding Fathers did.

Compromise is the oil that makes government go.

My motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation.

You have 435 people in the United States House of Representatives trying to get along.

It's very interesting how Washington works. It's not about speeches. It's about relationships.

One of the things that I've urged the president-elect to do is to develop a strong working relationship with the intelligence community and I think it's important that Congress, on a bipartisan basis.

I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

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.

Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.

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

In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.

In a divided government, you can't just say, 'It's my way or the highway.'

The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General.

It is the utmost necessity that this congress be a congress of unity.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them - all of the lawmakers - have hearts to do what's right, and they all are passionate about it.

I never dread going back to Congress.

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

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

I'm a believer in bipartisanship.

I reiterate that I am strongly committed to working with those on all sides of politics to improve how Parliament operates.

I will always be a partner with the president of the United States.

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.