Quotes About Partisanship

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.

After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.

Historically, Democrats have shown they are willing to do just about anything to win elections. Republicans must quit taking the high road and fight back with everything we have.

You've got to quit judging people just because they have an 'R' or a 'D' in front of their name. We don't do that in Oklahoma.

I was raised a Democrat, and now I'm an Independent.

I come from a part of the world - raised in a part of the world where you're born a Democrat, baptized a Democrat.

My political career began on the other side of the fence from the liberal filmmaker Michael Moore - both literally and figuratively. As a young intern for the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign, I was tasked with attending a Moore rally four days before the general election.

Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.

You're either on the Republican team or the Democratic team, and all that matters is that your team wins. Judging by history, regardless of which team wins, the people always lose.

With the woke progressive fire hose spraying on and on and on, my Republican colleagues are constantly saying they want to stop the Democrats. But when the time comes to stop them, it's business as usual for some.

Liberals always cry wolf.

This is very interesting because the Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you.

It always is a battle for a Republican in Connecticut, even one who's a moderate like I am, and one who's an independent thinker.

There is no real third party in America. There's this one party that has two sides to it - the Democratic and Republican side. It's one party that has two heads.

I believe in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment, thou shall not speak unfavorably of another Republican.

I'm a Republican myself, though I think there are actually some Democrats in Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.

I supported Barack Obama. I wasn't very quiet about my support. I thought he was going to be a refreshing change to George Bush. But what has happened is that we have an election that's become a single-issue election, and that issue is Barack Obama. And he's an icon to both sides.

From my governor, to be neither of the green nor of the blue party at the games in the Circus, nor a partisan either of the Parmularius or the Scutarius at the gladiators' fights; from him too I learned endurance of labor, and to want little, and to work with my own hands, and not to meddle with other people's affairs, and not to be ready to listen to slander.

Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.