Bipartisan Quotes - Page 6

• We have come so far. It's become a real bipartisan cause, which I'm very happy to see. And in the case of America, and it's - certainly, without America, we'd be facing catastrophe.

  Elton John

  Real, America, Causes

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• I think you'll find that these are measures that have great bipartisan support, and so I expect, not only did we do well in the primary, I think we'll win by a wide margin in the fall because we're going to get a lot of independents and conservative Democrats coming to us.

  Rand Paul

  Fall, Winning, Thinking

  "Rand Paul Says He Has A Tea Party 'Mandate'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 19, 2010.

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• The Democratic Party would like to see an open independent bipartisan investigation [about hacking].

  Donna Brazile

  Party, Independent, Hacking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I feel like it had an impact, in that it started the attention that has been paid to what was happening. It started to get us into this whole conversation about prison reform, the whole bipartisan dialogue that's been happening over the past five, six years about this, where you have a Van Jones and a Newt Gingrich, and you have the Rick Perrys and so forth getting up and talking about the need to reform.

  Ava DuVernay

  Past, Impact, Talking

  Source: deadline.com

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• Solar power seems to be truly bipartisan in its appeal.

  Bill McKibben

  Appeals, Solar Power, Seems

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The senate intelligence committee announced it would launch a bipartisan investigation into Russia`s alleged interference in the election.

  Donald Trump

  Russia, Election, Investigation

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American foreign policy based on the post-World War II institutions that believed in democratic global world, which Russia and the Soviet Union was often seen as hostile to. And most Republicans and Democrats have always basically believed in this world order. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and maybe Marine Le Pen do not agree with this basic structure of the world.

  David Brooks

  War, Marine, Order

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We [Democrats] are looking for things that we think would make a difference, improve the country, and enjoy some bipartisan support.

  Mitch McConnell

  Country, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill comes out with bipartisan support.

  Mitch McConnell

  Support, Bills, Function

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• Senator McCain is all for John Kerry. Do you know they're buddies? McCain is in favor of Kerry being secretary of state. Somebody the other day suggested, maybe it was just today, a bipartisan compromise and nominate Colin Powell to be secretary of state again. What would be bipartisan about that? He's not a Republican.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Would Be, Favors, Today

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• R&D generally has been a bipartisan thing, because in the IT space, in the medical space, the U.S., the benefits to ourselves and the world and our economy have been very, very clear. I'm hopeful we can make a very strong case there. Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.

  Bill Gates

  Strong, Space, Hopeful

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think its bipartisan.

  Chuck Todd

  Believe, Thinking, Voters

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• The leaders in Washington have got to come together in a bipartisan way and do the right thing for the people who are being left behind. We cannot have an America that is only based on the wealthy.

  Howard Schultz

  America, People, Leader

  "Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, Interview on the FOX Business Network". Interview with Liz Claman, weiner-laptop.beforeitsnews.com. April 4, 2012.

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• [The healthcare bill is a] headlong rush into socialism....we will not stand for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid hijacking of our freedom and democracy so they can impose their socialist 'utopia' of higher taxes, restricted access, inferior quality, and deadly inefficiency on the best health care system in the world....You and the RNC are all that stand between the Democrats' scheme to take more of your hard-earned income to pay for this unsustainable, freedom destroying entitlement and an opportunity to work for real, truly bipartisan step-by-step solutions.

  Michael Steele

  Real, Opportunity, Quality

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• Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning.

  J. C. Watts

  Color, Issues, Community

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

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• As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.

  Thomas Sowell

  Thumbs, Legislation, Partisans

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.334, Hoover Press

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• The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Caring, Parent, Becoming

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• When the September 11th attacks happened, only about a year later, the crypto community was holding its breath because here was a time when we just had an absolutely horrific terrorist attack on U.S. soil, and if the NSA and the FBI were unhappy with anything, Congress was ready to pass any law they wanted. The PATRIOT Act got pushed through very, very quickly with bipartisan support and very, very little debate, yet it didn't include anything about encryption.

  Matt Blaze

  Years, Law, Nsa

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I don't think he should make foreign policy on the basis of peak,but I don't think it can be overstated that Israel has been an embattled democracy that has enjoyed the bipartisan and overwhelming support of Americans. It has been a moral force.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Israel, Support

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Israel is a country of six million people. They need the U.S. It used to be bipartisan on Israeli politics. You never messed with that relationship. The fact that [ Benjamin] Netanyahu is willing to do that, I thought would horrify voters more than it turned out it did.

  David Brooks

  Country, Israel, People

  "Shields and Brooks on Netanyahu's election provocation, human trafficking holdup". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. March 20, 2015.

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• We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in America which disproportionately impacts the African-American community.

  Hakeem Jeffries

  Impact, America, Justice

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Administration officials, in fact, have repeatedly condemned ISIS for its treatment of religious minorities, including Christians. But a bipartisan resolution now moving through Congress calls on the administration to go further and say ISIS is guilty of genocide.

  Tom Gjelten

  Christian, Religious, Moving

  "As Christians Flee, Governments Pressured To Declare ISIS Guilty Of Genocide". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 24, 2015.

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