#bipartisan

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#history #inaugural-address #inspirational #politics #inspirational

Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders). ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#additional #bipartisan #deeply #gain #incumbents

I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill. ↗

— Don Nickles

#bipartisan #good #i #i think #pass

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

— Nancy Pelosi

#bipartisanship #cannot #forward #going #having

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#american people #anymore #bipartisanship #divided #down

They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped. ↗

— Kenneth Blackwell

#card #change #i #i tried #legislature

Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#been #bipartisan #bird #colleagues #continue

Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of Texas House members just last fall. You know, we've had almost 200,000 OTMs - the government categorizes OT 'other, other than Mexicans' - along the Mexican border. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#along #bipartisan #border #crisis #declared

The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#american #american people #begin #best #bipartisan

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#avoid #bipartisanship #causes #compromises #cooperate