Quotes About Partisanship

I'm so Republican, my first name starts with 'R.' I'm so right-wing - well, Randy Weber. You do the math.

Frankly, the left wants to be able to steal elections when necessary.

It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.

Republic-tards!

There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor.

Anybody who doesn't support the Republican nominee... is a RINO.

I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.

I'm not interested in political theater.

Nowadays, it has become a custom to criticise the BJP for everything.

I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.

When Barack Obama is right, then I'll support him. When he is wrong, I'll fight him.

We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.

Holding Congressional hearings is the purview of the majority, and during the first years of the Obama administration, Democrats could not be bothered.

We would not have this catastrophe of Obamacare if it were not for Jon Tester.

Obamacare is not popular.

We've never been a party to obstruct for obstruction sake.

Among Republicans, we trailed only the military and local police; among Democrats, we were at the top, leading every branch of government, universities, and the press.

we're subtly pressed to believe what we're expected to believe as a good "conservative" or a good "liberal." Anything outside our narrow channel is hostile terrain. But exactly this kind of tribalism subordinates the common good (and often the truth) to party loyalties.

You can expect that out of Federal people and to make it worse this was a Republican gang that cared nothing for the opinion of the good people of Arkansas who are Democrats.

80 per cent of people who care about politics and national issues fall in the 'taking sides' category.

A mugwump is a man in politics who never votes for anybody, but who is always voting against somebody.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

The reason is that the people know that the Democratic Party is the people's party, and the Republican Party is the party of special interest, and it always has been and always will be.

He not only fumbled badly in his attempts at impromptu oratory en route to the capital, but worst of all, ended his journey in the dead of night, embarrassingly fearful for his safety, after encouraging unseemly partisan demonstrations in friendly Northern cities. He was too conspicuous. He was too sequestered. He was too careless. He was too calculating. He was too conciliatory. He was too coercive. He was too sloppy.