Zitat des Tages über Überparteilichkeit / Bipartisanship:
Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.
If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today.
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.
We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle.
The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.
Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?'
I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.
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.
I'm a believer in bipartisanship.
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.
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.
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.
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.