Bipartisan Quotes - Page 3

• It's no wonder that America's engagement in the region has strong, sustained, bipartisan support. So I'll be handing my successor a strong foundation - including closer ties with Singapore - on which to continue building, and I'm optimistic that will happen.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Optimistic, America

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• The rise of Trump is a repudiation of 30 years of bipartisan treason and failure.

  Roger Stone

  Years, Trump, Treason

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There are things we can do [with violence], and we ought to do it in a bipartisan way.

  Hillary Clinton

  Way, Violence, Ought

  Source: time.com

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Thinking, Community

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

  David Price

  Needs, Congress, Capacity

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• I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

  Norman Lear

  Strong, Careers, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

  Jack Kingston

  Thinking, Ideas, Important

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• Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.

  Doc Hastings

  September, Congress, Homeland Security

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• One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Use, Tradition, Deny

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• Israel has, enjoys bipartisan support - both Democrats and Republicans - and we extend bipartisan hospitality to both Democrats and Republicans.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Support, Hospitality

  "Feinstein, Johnson debate stricter gun control; Netanyahu on dangerous times in the Middle East". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 22, 2012.

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• What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.

  Carly Fiorina

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Republicans Struggle To Say How They Would Pay For Tax Cuts" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2010.

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• President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.

  William J. Clinton

  Two, President, Dollars

  William J. Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I'm also particularly pleased that there is bipartisan support to include the input of border communities. Not only will security be strengthened according to Washington, D.C., but border communities will have a say as well.

  Jeff Flake

  Support, Community, Immigration

  "Who Are the Gang Of 8 in Senate Immigration Debate?" by Mary McGuire, abcnews.go.com. January 30, 2013.

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• I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Small Steps, Done

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• In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes.

  Susana Martinez

  Together, Mexico, Legislature

  "Paul Ryan Speaks at Republican National Convention". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2012.

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• The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'

  John McCain

  Principles, Done, Tables

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 28, 2010.

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• In the first weeks of the Obama administration, 'bipartisanship' was the reigning buzzword, and when the Beltway thinks 'bipartisan,' it pictures President Reagan and Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill putting aside their differences and forging a legislative partnership, a ruddy pair of genial patriarchs bonding over the Blarney Stone.

  James Wolcott

  Thinking, Differences, House

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• It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.

  Ron Wyden

  Working Together, Looks, Care

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• I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.

  Francis Collins

  Party, Thinking, Light

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• Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And our public life lies in shambles, shot through with icy cynicism and paralyzing pessimism. To put it bluntly, beneath the record-breaking stock markets on Wall Street and bipartisan budget-balancing deals in the White House lurk ominous clouds of despair across this nation.

  Cornel West

  Wall, Loneliness, Lying

  Cornel West (1998). “Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America”, G K Hall & Company

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• It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

  Colin Powell

  Nice, Raised, Partisans

  "White House Unveils Health Care Plan Amid Republican Resistance" by Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. February 22, 2010.

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• When Americans are worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, Congress and the president must work together to lift our economy and restore hope. That is the course the New Direction Congress will continue in the days and weeks ahead.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Dream, Jobs, Home

  "USA Today: Pelosi – We Need To Do More". www.democraticleader.gov. October 15, 2008.

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• There are many miles to go before we get this done ... But I have a feeling that ... we're going to have a big bipartisan vote for this in the end. My sense is that people are more optimistic than they've been in 20 years about addressing this problem.

  Michael Bennet

  Optimistic, Years, People

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• I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Strong, Thinking, Israel

  Interview with David Muir, abcnews.go.com. September 23, 2011.

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• There are three legs of the stool; spending, entitlements and making the tax code fair and equitable. That's the three legs of the stool. If we do all of those in a responsible, bipartisan way, I think the American people would all be very, very happy.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, People, Three

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