Quotes About Partisanship

I've always been in an environment saturated with Democrats, and because we aren't constantly challenged, we feel little urgency, we struggle to be enthusiastic and we can get lazy.

People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

What's not OK is using government policy and taxpayer dollars to push for an investigation if the motivation is purely political.

This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.

from the television show,Evade the Question Time] At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr. Kaine for an excellent nonspecific condemnation, plus one bonus point for blaming the previous government and another for successfully mutating the question to promote the party line. Mr. van de Poste gets a point for a firm rebuttal, but only two points for his condemnation, as he tried to inject an impartial and intelligent observation.

America is a strong and resilient country. And I know we will succeed, if we put aside partisanship and politics and work together as one nation.

If the Dalai Lama joins one party, then that makes it hard for the system to work.

Donald Trump could win the presidency without a popular-vote majority only because both parties have been locked into base-turnout strategies that are partially responsible for our government's ineffectiveness and gridlock.

The last thing they want is a revitalized economy now. I'm not saying the Democrats don't want a strong economy. Don't misunderstand. They just don't want it now.

I wasn't born into one of the two main parties, but both my parents had a strong sense of social justice.

But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

There are many people that frankly cannot get themselves to oppose Barack Obama. They make a lot of excuse for him.

Obama tried to make deals with Republicans, and I don't think he realized he'd have such an insanely opposing Congress.

In our system of government, an opposition party doesn't have the ability to pass legislation, but it has the ability to massively screw things up.

You'll be glad to know that I'm not taking my marching orders from the Democrats.

As the Right doubles down on anti-anti-Trumpism, it will find itself goaded into defending and rationalizing ever more outrageous conduct just as long as it annoys CNN and the Left.

At least since 1947, the historical record seems to support a simple conclusion: If you want the American economy to grow, you ought to put a Democrat in the Oval Office.

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

bothsidesism. It's the insistence that whatever excesses of partisanship you may see on the right have an equivalent on the left, that the way forward to solving America's problems is for good centrists of both parties to come together and work things out. All of this is willfully naïve.

Republicans don't just have bad ideas; at this point, they are, necessarily, bad people.

Democrats have a network of think tanks and sympathetic independent experts who look hard at evidence, try to devise solutions to real problems, and sometime affect actual legislative proposals. Republicans have nothing comparable; their tame "experts" are basically in the business of saying whatever their political masters want to hear.

The anger on the left - I've never seen anything like it. I mean, they're right now opposing everything. Democrats in the Senate are filibustering absolutely everything.