Quotes About Partisanship

Democrats were seen as the party who really cared. Republicans the party of wealthy assholes.

if the Democrats suggested a plan to burn down the Capitol building, the Republicans would counter with a plan to do it over the course of three years.

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

The Democrat Party has a simple choice. They can either choose to fight for America's working class or to promote illegal immigration. You can't do both.

The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.

Having voted in ways that ensure gridlock, Americans point to that very gridlock and despair that any good can come from Washington.

blaming someone else is often much easier than taking responsibility. It was a national epidemic, along with stupidity and partisanship.

I think we are just so far away from the political elite. Whether you are on one side or the other, you're still part of that group.

I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.

Marco Rubio continues to this day to be in favor of open borders.

Republicans have used the filibuster to turn the Senate into a de facto 60-vote body.

The Congress has never taken a firm stand against communalism.

The Democratic Party has become the party of the coastal elite, and the Republican Party is the party of the working class and that average American citizen who's been struggling over the past eight years with Obama in the White House.

The Frist fairness rule guarantees up-or-down votes for every circuit court or Supreme Court nomination, regardless of which party controls the Senate or the White House.

During the protracted tooth-and-nail tussle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries, I was one of those fierce partisans desperate for the first black candidate with a serious shot at the White House to win the nomination.

No matter which party is in the White House, doubt in America's democratic institutions rattles our nation to its core. This should not be a partisan issue for any reason, as any candidate or party could be on the receiving end of a hack at any time.

As I'm learning, Republicans seem to only care about deficits when a Democrat is in the White House.

Why should we allow a Democrat President in the White House to use executive orders and not do the same with a Republican President?

But until Democrats and Republicans, blacks and whites, liberal activists and conservative activists decide division is no longer the most valuable unit of currency, there will be no solutions of any kind.

I can't imagine the American people voting for Hillary Clinton to serve basically the third term of Barack Obama. And I think whoever the Republican primary voters and the delegates nominate, I will support that nominee wholeheartedly against a Hillary Clinton candidacy.