Quotes About Partisanship

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

When I was sixteen, I borrowed a copy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' from the mobile library. Democrats and Republicans were standing for very different principles, and I could see which side was going to represent me.

You remember had this gigantic clock in the arena showing the size of the national debt. And Paul told America, if you elect Republicans, we can fix that. But, if Paul Ryan was being honest, he would've pointed to the debt clock and said, we built that.

If you don't hate Clinton and the people who labored to keep him in office, you don't love your country.

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line.

You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa.

Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin observed, "The North Carolina Republican Party actually sent out a press release boasting about how its efforts drove down African-American turnout in this election."194

They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn't subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally.

Our democracy cannot survive its current downward drift into tribalism, extremism, and seething resentment. Today it's "us versus them" in America. Politics is little more than blood sport.

Our democracy cannot survive its current downward drift into tribalism, extremism, and seething resentment.

Today it's "us versus them" in America. Politics is little more than blood sport. As a result, our willingness to believe the worst about everyone outside our own bubble is growing, and our ability to solve problems and seize opportunities is shrinking.

I really think when historians look back on our time they will not divide us into red and blue and Republican Democrat like the things that were wrong with us were wrong with both sides in different ways, I do think they manifest in a more dangerous way on the right. But on the left there is a rot and it comes from academia and it filters down.

Mr. President, you've got to buy some democrats, Graham said. The good news is they come cheap.

reducing the total vote count for Democrats. The same could potentially be activated to reduce Trump votes in Republican districts.

and money was the engine of American politics, especially in the Republican Party.

Studies showed that the way members of each party consumed their news reflected this reality. For instance, Republican voters were generally more willing to believe what they heard from conservative media outlets than Democratic voters were from liberal platforms.

Although Cheney and a few other Republicans broke with the president and voted to impeach, most did not.

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.

Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.

In most riots in India, Congress has had a direct or indirect involvement. History bears this out.

The reality is, the Republicans in Massachusetts are irrelevant and they're in collusion with the Democrats.

I'll campaign for anyone who's honest and who I like, irrespective of the party.

The righties connect with Joe Beercan better than the Democrats do.