Quotes About Partisanship

In presidential elections, I think people focus way too much on ideology.

The closely divided presidential election of 2000 - in which George W. Bush defeated Al Gore by the slimmest of margins in Florida - forever implanted the divide between red states and blue states in our political consciousness.

US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.

Over the years, increasing partisanship has led many members of Congress reflexively to speak in favor of any military action launched by presidents of their own party while withholding support to presidents of the opposing party.

To pretend that former President Donald Trump's Republican Party will act in good faith to preserve democracy is naive.

This game of pretending that to be Never Trump doesn't lead to a President Hillary Clinton has to end.

I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith.

I have never knowingly dated a Republican.

We are more and more defined not by our friends but our political enemies - collecting them like badges of honor.

There's a lot of bipartisan rancor, a lot of excessive delegation of legislative power from the legislative branch to the executive branch.

People focus too much on whether there's a Democrat or a Republican in office. It's not like this guy Kim-Jong Un got into power the second Trump got into power. It's not like he wasn't a problem. It's not like we haven't had warmongers. It's not like corporations haven't been the main influence on what we're doing around the world.

Everybody knows I'm a Democrat.

I don't see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat.

I'm proud to be a Democrat.

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat.

I just am a Democrat. I could never, never be a Republican.

The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.

You cannot be a Christian and support the Democrat Party.

It would be very difficult for me to stay in a marriage with a Republican at this point. Not that there's anything wrong with Republicans, but I happen to be a Democrat.

If someone were lying on the road dying would it matter to you who came to save you? If it was a Democrat or a Republican, would it matter?

Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.

There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party.