It's time for political leaders across the ideological spectrum to realize that, while partisanship is understandable, hyper-partisanship is destructive to our country. We need more visionary leaders who will earnestly strive for bipartisanship and finding policy solutions that can move America forward.

Martin Luther King III

Evangelicals have, for decades, believed that the country was more conservative than not, more Christian than not. The bipartisanship on religious liberty and the civic faith of the country was conducive to that. Now they've woken up to a reality in the Obama years that this was a polite fiction.

Ben Domenech

I'd like to see that bipartisanship come back that we used to have in the House of Representatives, in the Clinton years. I think there's a possibility that the voters are going to send the message that everybody running - Congress, the Senate, the presidency - that they want us to come together.

Bill Richardson

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

Brad Henry

Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.

Campbell Brown

We must have courage to set partisanship aside and embrace the best ideas and solutions no matter which side of the aisle they come from.

Charlie Baker

Our obligation to the people we serve is too important to place politics and partisanship before progress and results.

Charlie Baker

We can bring people together in an era rife with partisanship and divide.

Chris Gibson

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

Christopher Buckley

Though I am probably guilty of indulging in excessive tribalism myself at times, I try to put partisanship to one side where appropriate.

Chuka Umunna

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?'

Colin Powell

In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.

Cory Booker

Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.

Cory Booker

We voted for Obama on rhetoric of 'hope and change.' We voted for him because of some idea that he was beyond politics and certainly beyond partisanship.

Dave Rubin

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

Elissa Slotkin

I've had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress.

Evan Bayh

We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.

Evgeny Morozov

Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.

Gary Herbert

Obama offers himself as a catalyst by which disenchanted Americans can overcome two decades of vicious partisanship, energize our democracy, and restore faith in government.

George Packer

Let's fix our roads, and be the state that's not paralyzed by partisanship, but works together. And create the blueprint for rebuilding America's crumbling infrastructure.

Gretchen Whitmer

New states were supposed to join the union when they reached a certain population, but in the late 19th century, population mattered a great deal less than partisanship.

Heather Cox Richardson