Quotes About Partisanship

There's been no end to the grief Mitch McConnell's taken for his declaration early in Barack Obama's first term that his party's top goal was to make Obama a one-term president.

Right-to-life groups won't fund us because we're Democrats.

If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.

The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.

It was a constant source of irritation to him that the public men on his side were, on the whole, not conspicuously better than the public men on the other side.

In this stupid world most people never consider that a thing is good to be done unless it is done by their own set.

Biconceptualism is central to our politics, and it is vital to understand how it works.

In recurring episodes over the next couple of decades, the minority view gradually won. A profusion of factors differentiates each case from the others, including naked partisanship on both sides, but the trend has been clear.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?'

If I am a Republican shill, wouldn't you think I am the least amount of a threat to the president?

Beijing is preparing for an open-ended period of confrontation with the U.S. Washington should also be prepared. Leaders must work across partisan divides to understand the threat, speak about it openly, and take action to address it.

Bipartisanship and decency are thrown to the waste side because people want their party to win so badly.

Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.

Blame the Tea Party? Geez, no wonder Kerry did so well in an election. If it wasn't for the Tea Party, they would have passed the debt ceiling thumbs up; we would have been rated BBB.

In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates.

Donald Trump at the head of the Republican ticket affords Democrats a great opportunity.

House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time.

Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.

I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has stayed in power, it's your obligation as an American to vote the other party in.

The only time you'll see me as a Democrat is when I play Sophia. In the real world I'm a Republican from head to toe.

Gun sales have spiked every time Democrats win elections since 1980.

Estas dos preocupaciones —aprovechamiento del tema común, cuidado obsesivo de la forma— eran indisociables en el autor de Madame Bovary. Extrañamente, los discípulos cercanos y remotos harán una división de ambas actitudes y tomarán partido por una en contra de la otra.

It was Bill Clinton who once pithily captured the contrast between the two parties when it came to selecting a presidential standard-bearer: Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line.

It is not so in the United States. There the same political enmity exists, but the political enmity produces private hatred.