Quotes About Partisanship

[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature.

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed and are right.

We (libertarians) find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

if you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.

I think actually in any party it's a sign of general health to have different views, and especially on the subject of trade.

We know from past history that when young people vote for one party a couple of times, they tend to vote for that party during their adult lifetimes in disproportionate numbers.

The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

The most we can hope for is strong marriages. Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic.

A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!

Please assure me that you are all Republicans.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs.

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans

...We are all Federalists, and we are all Republicans.

In a nutshell, over the decades the national policies of the Republicans had raped the region while the actions of many state and local Democrats too often were designed to preserve the assets of a select few at the expense of just about everyone else.

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

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