Quotes About Partisanship

Stripped of any pretense of governing philosophy, a political party will default to being controlled by those who shout the loudest and are unhindered by any semblance of normalcy. It isn't the quiet fans in the stands who get on television but the lunatics who paint their bodies with the team colors and go shirtless on frigid days.

When any political movement loses all sense of self and has no unifying theory of government, it ceases to function as a collective rooted in thought and becomes more like fans of a sports team. Asking the Republican Party today to agree on a definition of conservatism is like asking New York Giants fans to have a consensus opinion on the Law of the Sea Treaty.

So the Nixon White House laid out the path to electoral success by maximizing white grievance and suppressing the African American vote through a combination of manipulation, lies, and legal challenges. It was this road that the Republican Party took to the Trump White House.

We're in bad shape as a country. We're suffering from the collapse of both political parties. They're bought out. They're owned by corporate America, lock, stock, and barrel. The media is sold out. The corporate dominant culture, which is driven by the market, the bottom line, sells out everything.

Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation.

I think the Republican Party has moved substantially to the right, particularly on social issues... And the Democratic Party has moved to the left over the past decades. So we've got a lot more room in the middle.

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

The failure of Obamacare, I think, rests solely on the shoulders of Democrats. They created the program. They pushed it through. They made this legislation happen, and they need to own the failure of it.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.

We must have courage to set partisanship aside and embrace the best ideas and solutions no matter which side of the aisle they come from.

Both parties are so entrenched in their ideologies and a desire to score political points and hold on to power that we never seem to agree on a problem, much less find solutions.

I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.

I'm a proud Republican - there's no issue with that at all, so why can't I be a proud Republican and just try to solve problems?

There's people on the left who refuse to consider that anybody but the government can solve any of their problems.

I don't think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don't like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world's problems.

There's a feeling among some people that the Republican party is harsh on some things.

There are things that some Democrats say I agree with and some things that I disagree with. And it's the same with the Republicans.

As a Democrat in this Senate, I felt aggrieved by some things the other side has done. I have no doubt they feel aggrieved about some of the things we have done.

By itself, partyism is not the most serious threat to democratic self-government. But if it decreases government's ability to solve serious problems, then it has concrete and potentially catastrophic consequences for people's lives. I

In GOP land, apologies and resignations are never enough.

If we continue to dump more Mexican immigrants on the country, we'll get to the point that we'll never have another Republican president.

Michigan will be Democratic in some years and Republican in some years. I don't think we'll ever make the mistake like we did in 2016 and not turn out again.