Quotes About Partisanship

The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.

The Republican Party is not inclusive.

But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.

I don't think Keynesian Monetarism has to be Democrat or Republican.

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

The Republican Party does not reach out.

I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.

You can't work across party lines when there aren't many of them. So I'm going to work across Republican Party lines because there are a lot of divisions in the Republican Party.

It just seems like the Democrats always have a problem when a Republican gets in office.

The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

There's no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

People don't realize that they're being played by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but more so by the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party does not want another party in there.

I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.

American history is the story of Democratic malefactors and Republican heroes.

Traditional Republicanism grew up in the 1850s as opposed to the Democrats, who always saw the world kind of as a 'us vs. them' proposition. That the world was limited; the economy was limited.

There are lots of bad Republicans, there are no good Democrats.

Consider this for a moment: House Republicans would rather cut off a woman's access to birth control, cancer screenings, and other preventative care from Planned Parenthood than continue to fund and operate the federal government.

I have no love for the Republicans, but the Democrats drive me absolutely crazy.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

Republicans need to get honest about confronting climate, but Democrats need to get honest about energy.

You look at women at the Republican convention and women at the Democratic convention. Republicans have a certain aesthetic beauty that involves more makeup, bigger hair, more lurid outfits.

There are many Republicans who hardly even know a Democrat. And there are just as many, if not more, Democrats who don't know a Republican.

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something.