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  • What Barack Obama calls bipartisanship is not moving to the right, but finding where people who consider themselves conservatives share these fundamental American values. When he talks about union, that's the kind of thing he means. That requires common responsibility. Individual responsibility is one of the hallmarks of conservative thought. In conservative religion, you yourself are responsible for whether you get into heaven. Or with fiscal conservatives, you are the market. It's your individual discipline and market discipline.

    Source: truth-out.org
  • Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

    "Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle, Rep. Dick Gephardt Extend Hand of Bipartisanship to President-Elect George W. Bush". www.cnn.com. December 14, 2000.
  • If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down in the mire of partisan gamesmanship.

  • Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

  • If you're a progressive, you can find lots of people who call themselves conservatives, but who agree with you on lots of things. There are people who call themselves conservatives, but who love the land as much as any environmentalist. Progressives share a number of common values with people who call themselves conservatives. Barack Obama has understood that very well. What he calls bipartisanship is not adopting conservative views, but finding where people who consider themselves conservatives share with him and other progressives these fundamental American values.

    Source: truth-out.org
  • We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.

  • Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.

    Home   Needs   Division  
    Speech to Boston World Affairs Council, Boston, Massachusetts, March 11, 1976.
  • I would tell the Democrats in Washington who are trying to be civil with the "bipartisanship" to please stop and let the joker die once and for all, let the agents of chaos hit the pavement, stop picking them up.

    Source: brightestyoungthings.com
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.

  • 1994 GOP victory destroyed bipartisanship.

    Victory   Gop   Destroyed  
  • I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

  • Foreign policy always has more force and punch when the nation speaks with one voice. To remain secure, prosperous, and free, the United States must continue to lead. That leadership requires a president and Congress working together to fashion a foreign policy with broad, bipartisan support. A foreign policy of unity is essential if the United States is to promote its values and interests effectively and help to build a safer, freer, and more prosperous world.

    Fashion   Voice   Support  
  • We also think this is a reminder of the long tradition of bipartisan foreign policy that has been the hallmark of America at moments of greatest need, and that's the kind of spirit that we hope will be reflected in our administration.

    Thinking   America   Long  
    "Cnn Newsroom" with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2009.
  • First, we must continually reaffirm the principle that the security of the United States is not, and should never be, a partisan matter. The United States can best defend its national security interests abroad by uniting behind a bipartisan security policy at home.

  • I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.

    Thinking   People   Loser  
    "Mr ‘Total Conservative’". Interview with Bill Steigerwald, themoderatevoice.com. March 3, 2009.
  • Bipartisanship on behalf of an imprudent policy can be folly, just as partisanship on behalf of a just cause can be wise. What is clear is that politics will not stop at the water's edge simply because presidents plead for it. American foreign policy will return to the tradition of Truman and Vandenberg only when the American public demands it.

    Wise   Water   President  
  • Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than any party affiliation.

    Party   America   Ties  
    Remarks and Question and Answer Session at the Chamber of Commerce Dinner, 1997-2001.state.gov. June 8, 1997.
  • Their [BBC] idea of bipartisanship is to try not to offend the Conservative party, try not to offend the Labour party.There is no analysis of anything beyond that, and these two parties are exactly identical, following the same Neoliberal policies for thirty years. And it's no criticism outside of that, it's just that there's basically sectarian pandering to these two individual parties, these two individual organisations. They still make a lot of great programmes and do a lot of great things, but there's not much political analysis happening broader to that.

    Party   Years   Ideas  
    Source: thequietus.com
  • 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.

    "Bipartisanship Is a Silly Beltway Obsession" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2009.
  • History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide leadership, the American people will follow.

    Country   Voice   People  
  • For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach.

    Defense   Half   Return  
  • Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

  • This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.

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

    "White House Unveils Health Care Plan Amid Republican Resistance" by Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. February 22, 2010.
  • If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today.

    Today   Bipartisan   Ifs  
  • America's leaders have to find a way to work together, rise to the challenge, and come up with solutions as bold and visionary as the people of this nation.

    America   People   Leader  
  • I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.

    Fans   Routine   Barack  
    "Decline with a Chance of Fall" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2008.
  • The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.

    Mean   Deception   Usual  
    George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion
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