“I believe we can have a strong bipartisan bill in the next session,”
Edward Kennedy
“The fact that it's a bipartisan bill is tremendously important.”
Gigi Sohn
“We felt very strongly that we needed a more bipartisan approach.”
Kathy Walt
“We're not sure how successful we're going to be at getting a bipartisan bill, which is what he said he wants in order to address the ESA.”
Stephen Hourahan
“In both cases, he did it with very strong bipartisan backing. But they wrongly and foolishly extrapolated from the recall and the Prop. 57-58 and 66 campaigns that this guy was a masterful campaigner who could sell ice to Eskimos and could sell pork pies in a synagogue.”
Garry South
“The message I heard this morning, ... was a plea -- a very strong bipartisan plea that he take this issue to the American people and to the Congress in a straight up, forthright way for all of us to debate it and for our country to understand it.”
Larry Craig
“I'm cautiously optimistic. I think we can see a path to a bipartisan bill.”
John Rother
