Quotes About Partisanship

The political scenario has gotten so divisive - not only in Washington, D.C., but across the country, too.

It's Never Trumpers who deserve the most scorn, especially the inadequates from the Lincoln Project.

Our economy, our safety, our jobs all take a back seat to the left's political desire to hurt Trump.

The only reason black lives matter to the Left is to secure election majorities at election time. That is the only reason that black lives matter.

You always want to have a mix of conservatives and liberals on a panel, especially on election night.

If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

We are drowning in partisan rhetoric that is just true enough not to be a lie; in industry-sponsored research; in social media's imitation of human connection; in legalese and corporate double-speak.

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.

We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels, through ideological frames, through partisan frames.

I am not pollyannaish about the deep partisan battles that divide us.

I think the idea of participating in your own health care and being responsible to the extent you can be of your own health, it seems to me a lot like self-reliance and individual responsibility. This cuts through the partisan divide.

In the old way of doing business, it was fine to disagree and then go to dinner. Now it's personal and more partisan, and a disagreement on one issue leads to a disagreement on another issue.

Keeping children alive and free of disease is not a political issue and cannot be put into a partisan box.

On NAFTA, the Canadian Parliament... is united. We have our partisan differences. When we hold the government to account, as is our role in our parliamentary system, we will absolutely point out what we think they should be doing differently. But when it comes to our relationship with the United States, we do speak with one voice.

There is very little chance of the modern Republican Party putting the national interest above their own partisan interests.

Look, Bill Barr can choose to be a lying partisan hack. It just means he needs to go work for the Trump campaign but he can't be attorney general. That's a position that requires independence, integrity, an oath to the constitution.

North Carolina wants its judges to be fair and impartial, and partisan politics has no place on the judges' bench.

Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.

The cause of peace is too great for us to allow political disagreements or partisanship to stand in our way.

Our obligation to the people we serve is too important to place politics and partisanship before progress and results.

I've had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress.

Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.

Politics is full of hyperbole. Politics is full of hyperbole and partisanship, and every four to eight-year cycle, those that disagree with the platform or the party of the president in power find themselves thinking we've arrived at hell in a handbasket.