Quotes About Partisanship

Look, most Republicans are decent men who simply have a view of the world that is different from ours. But there is a hard core of fucking nutcases.

The more people in need, the better the Democrat Party is, in their minds, 'cause that's their source of power.

Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

Conservatives are much more comfortable supporting the leader who's in power than liberals.

The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.

the identification of evangelical faith with conservative/Republican/Trumpist politics

In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art.

He'll be a minister in Spain some day, or, at the very least, ambassador to Washington, he's exactly the kind of pretentious fool with just a thin veneer of cordiality that the Right produces by the dozen and which the Left reproduces and imitates whenever they're in power, as if they were the victims of some form of contagion.

En esto de la política me sucede como en el fútbol: tienes que ser de un equipo; de otra manera, no hay emoción.

There were a million things we needed to figure out—and the congressman thought the most important thing we needed to do was slice up the operating budget so each political party was assured its "fair share"? Welcome to Washington. Once

The Republicans were locked in: they would block any efforts to increase the minimum wage by even a few nickels. The

Judge Raymond J. Brassard was a Republican appointee and not considered particularly favorable to plaintiffs' attorneys.

Although I condemn any violence, if two people are fighting, I'm probably gonna be on one side or the other, even though I'm against violence.

History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.

Theoretically, politics was about bridging divides. Realistically, it was mostly every man (and woman) for themselves.

There is too much blind partisanship in Congress, which has blocked progress on critical issues. Too many members view compromise as weakness rather than the essence of our democracy. This has to end.

In 1993, as House Democratic Leader, I led the fight to pass the Clinton-Gore economic plan - a plan designed to slash the deficit, invest in education, cut taxes for working families, and ask the wealthy among us to pay their fair share... Not one Republican voted for that plan. They said it was a job killer.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

What has happened is we've allowed the people who run policies in this country to sort of make us pick Left and the Right as if those are the only two choices.

I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

I'm passionate about politics, but when it comes to political parties, I'm despondent. I'm disappointed at the absence of a sense of humanity and struggle to not become a cynic.

I honestly believe that we are Arizonans and Americans first, not merely advocates for our respective political parties.

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.