Quotes About Partisanship

All people are born alike — except Republicans and Democrats.

All people are born alike... except Republicans and Democrats.

Bipartisanship is another name for date rape.

Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, are right

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.

Unfortunately, the Obama administration is more interested in furthering its political agenda than in following the law.

I've said from day one, when Donald Trump gets in there, he's going to make an equal number of Republicans unhappy as Democrats unhappy.

Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.

In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.

Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.

The reality is that the Republican Party may have unified government but is not unified enough on many major signature policy areas.

Obama spent the first two years of his administration practicing political unilateral disarmament.

The Democratic Party takes huge amounts of cash from corporations and unions to vote a certain way.

I want all Hispanics in the Republican Party, in the Democratic Party, whether Latin Americans, Central Americans, Cubans, Mexicans, I want us to unite.

As it is my good fortune to be American, I live in the only country that as a matter of policy is pro-Israel regardless of party allegiance; Democrats and Republicans equally unite behind the blue-and-white.

McCain needs Hillary to run because that's what keeps the Republican coalition together. She helps unite the Republican base.

The Russians didn't invent partisan divides. The Russians haven't invented racism in the United States. But the Russians understand a lot of those divisions and they understand how to exploit them.

I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind.

More than a few Republicans in the United States Senate seem to have contracted a severe case of what Harry Truman called 'Potomac Fever' (wanting to go along to get along in Washington).

The real reason Democrats are pushing for universal mail-in balloting has nothing to do with the global pandemic which originated in China; they simply believe it will help them win elections.

If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.

Don Siegelman should be a star in the Democratic Party. Instead, he's a former elected official sentenced to prison by a right-wing judge in Alabama.

I never heard the word 'compromise' used. So I'm starting to believe that these terms only come into play to try and force Republicans to do what the Democrats want.