Quotes About Partisanship

Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

There are lot of issues we passed out of the House that have gotten not only a lot of Republican support - Tea Party and every group within the Republican conference - but even Democrats.

all alone to endorse Goldwater without a fight. "Fanatics of the Birch variety have fastened their fangs on the Republican Party's flanks," Nelligan told reporters, "and are hanging on like grim death.

The main character in Nixonland is not Richard Nixon. Its protagonist, in fact, has no name--but lives on every page. It is the voter who, in 1964, pulled the lever for the Democrat for president because to do anything else, at least that particular Tuesday in November, seemed to court civilizational chaos, and who, eight years later, pulled the lever for the Republican for exactly the same reason.

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.

The biggest political divide in America today is not between Republicans and Democrats. It's between democracy and oligarchy. Hearing and using the same old labels prevents most people from noticing they're being shafted.

One explanation for their complicity is that Trump's divisiveness is politically helpful to them. It keeps Americans fighting each other rather than discovering their common interest in fighting oligarchy.

When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's a matter of morality. Republicans have posed the deepest moral question of any society: whether we're all in it together. Their answer is we're not. President Obama should proclaim, loudly and clearly, we are.

We have a long tradition in America of electing a president, celebrating him for a few days, and then spending four or eight years demonizing him, reviling him, or blindly defending him.

At least I never voted Republican. -Tony Kushner

If Michael Steele doesn't make you sad, well, then there's radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man.

Mitch McConnell's innovation was in using it constantly to slow down things that did have bipartisan support, just to make sure as little as possible happened that Obama could get credit for. You

Leading Democrats founded the Ku Klux Klan in the late nineteenth century and then, after Republicans shut it down, revived it in the early twentieth century.

Canadians believe that MPs do a better job pursuing the interest of their political parties than of those they represent,

If its platform is any guide, the Republican party is staunchly pro-life until you are actually born.

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.

Both parties promote "changing Washington," but in reality they like Washington just the way it is: little gets done that they don't like, and none of our officials are truly held accountable.

No matter what they say, Democrats and Republicans in the United States do not control the government because they are best able to serve us and meet our needs. In fact, both parties couldn't care less about us.

We must recognize that we do not have a two-party system in this country; we have one party, the big government party. There is a republican version that assaults our civil liberties and loves deficits and war, and a democratic version that assaults our commercial liberty and loves wealth transfers and taxes.

I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire,' proclaimed Churchill defending the partisanship of the British Gazette in a Commons debate on the Strike on 7 July. 'When you are in a great difficulty and in a fight of this kind, however unfortunate it may be, it is absolutely no use people pretending they do not know what side they are on.

I have tried very sincerely to adopt a neutral attitude of mind in the Spanish quarrel,' he told the Commons. 'I refuse to become the partisan of either side. I will not pretend that, if I had to choose between Communism and Nazi-ism, I would choose Communism. I hope not to be called upon to survive in the world under a Government of either of those dispensations

a new Party will arise like perhaps the Republican Party of the United States of America Ã¢â'¬â€œ rich, materialist, and secular Ã¢â'¬â€œ whose opinions will turn on tariffs, and who will cause the lobbies to be crowded with the touts of protected industries.

When someone tells me he is politically neutral," Francesca smiled, "I always ask which politics he specifically has in mind.