Quotes About Partisanship

I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic.

There are smart people on our side of the aisle who have known as early as I did who Obama was and should have been saying 'I hope this guy fails' right along with me. There should have been opposition to this guy all along.

At least in the U.S., the party you believe in plays a big role in how you conceive of yourself. It feels good to think that your party is smarter, and that the smarts are what drive people to your party.

If bitter party name-calling turns people off then smear politics just destroys all credibility in the aims of politicians, the role of political parties and the political process itself.

I guess the news is this: If you're a Republican and you smile, liberals don't like it. Maybe that's because Democrats are afraid that I've been able to show an optimistic vision for this country.

Democrats want to peer into every second of President Trump's life, hoping to find a smoking gun.

I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with a capital 'R' on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.

To be honest, I think that Republicans love terrorism.

But if you look at everything only through the lens of your party or affiliation, and are capable of being in the same room only with people who think and vote like you, doesn't that make you somewhat uncurious and oversimplifying, passive-aggressive, locked into assuming you are riding the high moral tide, without ever wondering if you might not, in the eyes of others, be on the very bottom?

By joining the anti-abortion movement, the once guilty are propelled from deep moral unease to a secure position of moral innocence and superiority, with the added social bonding that comes from uniting against a shared enemy whom they depict as murderous and vile. That's quite a set of perks for a very low price of membership (namely, agreeing to vote Republican in the United States—or its counterparts elsewhere).

Los cargos que contenía era como siguen; Que eran enemigos y perturbadores del comerico; que habian producido conmociones y bandos en la ciudad, y se habían ganado un partido a sus opiniones peligrosísimas en desacato de la ley de su Príncipe.

Why in the world are you a Republican?

We all lose when we think that everything people in our party do and say is right and everything people in another party do and say is wrong. This is simply not true. If we think, speak, and act only along party lines, we operate like a machine without insight, without understanding, without compassion.

We should let people elect judges based on their experience and ability to do the job, not which party they pick.

Historically, figuring out what to do to the tax code has been almost as contentious a political issue as judicial appointments.

You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on.

I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.

I get a kick out of Democrats thinking they know how handicap a GOP race.

It's absolutely wrong to see all of these large corporations folding into basically what the Democrats want, and that's kissing the ring.

I'm not - I'm not going to define people by labels: who's a real Republican, who's not a real Republican.

a Democrat is a Republican who's been through the criminal justice system.

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans- unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.