Quotes About Partisanship

I say Republicans aren't right all the time. Democrats aren't wrong all the time - now, maybe most of the time, but not all the time.

There are some in black robes sitting on federal benches all across this country. They're Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and even conservatives that pervert the Constitution.

In 2005, Republicans passed a 360-page reconciliation bill without a single Democratic vote that provided deep cuts to Medicaid and raised premiums on Medicare beneficiaries.

Republicans are for clean water, clean air, and clean energy. We are not for taxing people out of their house, home and business to pay for it. And that is the fundamental difference between the Democrats and Republicans on this issue.

Republicans have said much worse things about me than any Democrat ever has.

The Republicans are, 'the party of the rich,' my mom said, 'We're poor, so we're Democrats.' That convinced me. I had no wish to remain poor, so I became a Republican at the age of 12.

Republicans aren't interested in a one-sentence fix unless that sentence is, 'Obamacare is repealed.'

Republicans are so far out to the right, it's pushing people into the Democratic Party.

TV is set up to be just a shout fest: Is this good for Republicans or bad for Republicans; is this good for Cain or bad for Cain... tell me something that I need to know.

I think 'immigration' is a bad word for many Republicans.

Because Republicans have no ideas, they want to turn elections into the battle of dollars.

It's a sad day when Republicans will attack fellow Republicans on an issue as fundamental as free enterprise.

What hurts the GOP is when we have leaders placing the blame on other leaders within the party.

The left is really good at selling bad ideas and the right is really bad at selling good ideas.

I think we need a lot less ideology around health care.

Historically, Democrats have been far more united than Republicans when it comes to policy, ideology and public debate.

A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

The Democrats are fighting for illegal aliens. Donald Trump is fighting for American citizens.

The biggest challenge I have with Washingtonians is they think Illinois is exclusively a Democratic state.

The Democrats want to destroy the country immediately.

As a Democrat, it's easy for me to talk about immigration. For my Republican friends, they could get criticized from the Right in their party.

I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

It's simply incorrect to call Dr. King a Republican.

I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.