Quotes About Partisanship

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

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.

To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.

It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.

The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.

Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes.

In America, we have a bifurcated country, we have a polarized country. One of the reasons I think it's polarized is because of identity politics on the left.

If you're going to be a sexual predator, be a Democrat.

What the media is doing is, again, just going after the Democrats and the Republicans and making it about politics instead of principles.

Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.

If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays.

I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for...

In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a doubtful district, I was Doubtful. But I was always for Erie.

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.