Quotes About Partisanship

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Health care has become a political football that is being tossed back and forth by both sides in Washington. And it's divided our country.

Politicians in Washington are useless.

I believe both parties are sending the wrong kind of people to Washington, D.C.

Washington is paralyzed by extreme political rhetoric that creates powerful sound bites but poor policy.

I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.

If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think it's bipartisan.

Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.

And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.

While I have worked hard to bring folks to the middle to craft common-sense solutions to the many problems that confront our nation, Washington is mired in gridlock, gamesmanship and constant partisan bickering.

In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.

Our government has failed us. From the billion-dollar bailouts to the 'stimulus' package that failed to stimulate to the government takeover of health care, you cried 'Stop!'... but the Democratic Majority in Washington has refused to listen.

Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.

I don't think for one second anyone believes the 'Washington Post' and 'New York Times' are anything but aggressively against Trump.

I'm not going to stop beating up on the Democrats for wasteful spending.

The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.

Whether you are liberal or conservative, people seem to know the talking points for whatever the issue of the day is. Very rarely does it seem like these are opinions that people are coming up with themselves; it's like they watched the right cable news channel, and now they know what they are supposed to think, and they repeat that.

I would be with a bunch of Kennedy fans watching the debate, and their comment would be, 'He's really slaughtering Nixon.' Then we would all go to another apartment, and the Nixon fans would say, 'How do you like the shellacking he gave Kennedy?'

If Democrats don't go on Fox News, it doesn't mean that people stop watching.

I really started getting more politically involved after the 2016 election, watching how partisan and how angry our political conversations became.

Donald Trump's election was a watershed moment. Even those like me, who had previously pulled levers for candidates of both parties, felt that Mr. Trump had not only violated all sense of common decency, but, alarmingly, that he seemed to have no idea that there even existed such an unspoken code of civility and dignity.

We saw a true wave election in 2010 for Republicans. There was no such repudiation offered by Resistance Democrats in 2018.

Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact.