Quotes About Partisanship

I have always been involved in issue-based politics, not party politics - I was never really originally drawn to party politics.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

I'm old enuf to remember when Dems considered a UN resolution and an actual coalition nothing more than Bushy McHitler going it alone.

Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The more you read about politics the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal -- they have to live off each other--while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best

I don't like politics.

Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth.

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

People often use partisan identity to fill the void left when their other attachments wither away - ethnic, neighborhood, religious, communal and familial. This is asking more from politics than politics can deliver. Once politics becomes your ethnic or moral identity, it becomes impossible to compromise, because compromise becomes dishonor.

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

the state never voted for a Whig candidate for President

Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

I think God has blessed us. He has blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can't even find one.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians.

Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.

I've been a Democrat, I've been a Republican, and I eventually became an independent because I don't believe either party has a monopoly on good ideas or strong leadership.