Quotes About Partisanship

You should govern not by partisanship, but by leadership.

Political paralysis and partisanship are sabotaging American power.

I think partisanship is probably the greatest problem in Washington, D.C.

Though I am probably guilty of indulging in excessive tribalism myself at times, I try to put partisanship to one side where appropriate.

You've heard me question whether the partisanship in Washington has made us, as a nation, ungovernable - and, indeed, Democrats are doing their very best to make sure of it.

Logic, fact, morality, legality, ideology: All of it is irrelevant in understanding the Party of Trump. Republicans have made crystal clear that nothing matters to them other than partisanship.

Partisanship is nothing new. I grew up in a household where appliances that broke had 'gone Democrat.'

The party of Kennedy is also the party of Eastland. The party of Javits is also the party of Goldwater.

As a matter of fact I don't like politics. I really don't. I think it's so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line.

I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

Despite the fact that important measures such as the Americans with Disabilities Act passed only with crucial Republican support, the public - and the community of disability advocates - normally identifies this issue with the Democratic party.

Clinton passed his first budget without a single Republican vote in either the House or the Senate. Before it led to the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, it led to a Democratic defeat in the 1994 midterms.

There has been a long-term decline in partisan attachment. As Paul Whiteley has recorded

I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.

Partisanship should have no role in the vital U.S.-Israel relationship.

If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?

When I first registered to vote I registered as a Democrat.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.

I would always vote for Tory candidates in the United Kingdom, and I would probably be Republican if I was an American.

My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.

I wouldn't vote for Obama.

If the parties would brand themselves the way Coke and Pepsi and other products do so that you knew what you were buying, it had quality control. I vote for the Republican. He or she will not raise my taxes. I'll buy one. I'll take that one home.

As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.