Quotes About Partisanship

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.

You see Democrats who will demonize business. I don't do that. You see Republicans who demonize labor. I don't do that.

For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition.

And I think for some - not all - but for some Democrats, the issue of immigration is better politically if they just leave it the way it is now because they can use it against Republicans.

Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.

I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions and movements aligned with the other side.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get to be as corrupt as, basically, they want, and just ignore it.

The Republicans do not have feeling for people who are in bad shape.

Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.

Republicans like to indict Democrats as anti-corporate zealots.

'Moderate Republican' is simply how the blabocracy flatters Republicans who vote with the Democrats. If it weren't so conspicuous, the 'New York Times' would start referring to 'nice Republicans' and 'mean Republicans'

Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.

When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.

On the Republican playing field, Republicans always win.

Clinton knew how to get things done. He was battling the Republicans, and then he basically took a lot of their agenda and made it his own. That's what Obama's not doing.

The Republicans have bought into the idea that people hate them because they're opposed to everything.

We aren't as divided as we think we are. We're not just Republicans sitting in one corner, and Democrats sitting in the other corner.

I'm going to work with Republicans when they do things I agree with and I'm going to fight Republicans when they're doing things that I think are damaging.

Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends.

Republicans are the party of 'no,' and Democrats are the party of 'don't know' because it hasn't fought for bold ideas, policies, or plans to turn us in a new direction.