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Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.

We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.

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

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.

The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.

The rise of Trump is a repudiation of 30 years of bipartisan treason and failure.

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It’s a modern Republican thing.

We're seeing the convergence of a big, corporate party right now. A sort of bipartisan merger under the figure of Hillary Clinton.

We will build a Navy of 350 surface ships and submarines, as recommended by the bipartisan National Defense Panel. We right now only have 276 ships, and it's not enough.

The only bipartisan place in D.C. is Brooks Brothers.

Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it

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.

I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform.

I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.

We have come so far. It's become a real bipartisan cause, which I'm very happy to see. And in the case of America, and it's - certainly, without America, we'd be facing catastrophe.

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions.

We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in America which disproportionately impacts the African-American community.

We [Democrats] are looking for things that we think would make a difference, improve the country, and enjoy some bipartisan support.

Donald Trump is in a partisan election, so he views the role differently than Mitch Landrieu and I who are are trying to lead our cities in a bipartisan or nonpartisan manner.

Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney’s momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan.

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think its bipartisan.

I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.

Nobody in the Senate on a bipartisan fashion trusts the Iranians. They lie. They cheat. They're a murderous regime. They've been trying to develop a nuclear weapon.

I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

I am now more sure than ever that we're going to have a bipartisan bill ... making incredible progress.

I'm a Democrat, but I'm really bipartisan - some people might say nonpartisan.

What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill comes out with bipartisan support.

Nothing gets done (in Congress) unless it's bipartisan. And the reason that matters is that it's a function of reality.

We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.

With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American business and farmers

We have to be on offense against terrorists, that we have to make it bipartisan, that it isn't about being a Democrat or a Republican. It's about being an American.

Economic policies command bipartisan support only when they're incoherent.

As much as we may have to battle against a Trump presidency, there's still good relationships within the Senate, bipartisan relationships where we can work together.

There's never a perfect bipartisan bill in the eyes of a partisan.

There are a few things [Donald Trump] has been pretty clear he'll do. A big infrastructure program that he'll get bipartisan support for.

If you're wanting to do policy, it should be bipartisan.

The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it.

Israel has, enjoys bipartisan support - both Democrats and Republicans - and we extend bipartisan hospitality to both Democrats and Republicans.

Solar power seems to be truly bipartisan in its appeal.

The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.

I believe it's time to put our best ideas on the table and work toward a bipartisan solution, with the single goal of leaving the Social Security system stronger than we found it.

I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.