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
Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.
Christopher Buckley
The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?'
Colin Powell
Where people are trying to split Americans from each other I want there desperately to be bipartisanship.
Elissa Slotkin
I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It's a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter.
James Wolcott
I do hope President Trump's calls for bipartisanship are genuine, and I also hope he takes the actions needed to unify the country.
Jeff Van Drew
The term bipartisanship, that's a means to an end. That's not something that I think you run on. I think you run on solutions.
John Delaney
The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.
John F. Kerry
I'm a believer in bipartisanship.
John Kasich
Too great a love for the presidency has caused Democrats to neglect state and local politics and to overly prize compromise and a futile quest for bipartisanship. It has made liberals too allergic to federalism and too shy about grassroots politics.
Joy Reid
I'm very concerned about the tone of politics in recent years. We've seen a decline in civility and bipartisanship, and a rapid increase in hostility between those who have differing opinions. I think this has led to the alienation of the public in governance, which jeopardizes democratic participation.
Kyrsten Sinema
The system requires bipartisanship.
Lee Zeldin
I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.
Mack McLarty
Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.
Mark McKinnon
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
My dad's about character and bipartisanship and something greater than yourself and believing in this country and believing in the fact that we as Americans can still come together, and that's something I grew up in and feeds me every day.
Meghan McCain
I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.
Mike Huckabee
I'm a huge fan of bipartisanship and working together to get things done.
Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.
Bipartisanship has taken us to the brink of bankruptcy. We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle... Where was the call for bipartisanship during the Obamacare debate? Not a single Republican voted for it. It wasn't about bipartisanship, it was about having the votes to dictate your will.
I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.
What I've said about compromise, I hope to build a conservative majority so bipartisanship becomes Democrats joining Republicans to roll back the size of government, reduce the bureaucracy, and get America moving again.
We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle.
I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.
Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.
I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.
People love to talk about the old bipartisanship. But it wasn't really bipartisanship. Yeah, they had a different label. But they're replaced now by people with basically the same views.
Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.
The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.
Bipartisanship and decency are thrown to the waste side because people want their party to win so badly.
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
