Quotes About Partisanship

Obama is not Bill Clinton. I don't think he's willing to let conservatives have any victories at all.

Don't forget the Vietnam War was brought to us by Democrats.

For nearly three years, President Obama devoted a great deal of effort to finding compromises with Congressional Republicans. That was futile, in my view, since those Republicans had made it clear from the day he was inaugurated in 2009 that their plan was to oppose everything he wanted and then paint him as a failed president.

It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to Avis DeVoto)

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.

The number of elected officials who were willing to put the good of the country ahead of their own ego, and the success of their political party, was minuscule.

Because of our failure to live out our beliefs, our own lack of moral clarity, and our meddling with partisan politics, Western culture no longer looks to Christianity as its moral source.

They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.

People are tired of the politics of Donald Trump. l really do believe that.

Congress is dysfunctional.

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

Politicians are elected to do what is right, but too many are just doing what is right for the party.

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

Ethics knows no party. Those rules should be applied the same in a Republican administration and a Democratic administration.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Gerrymandering isn't just a recent phenomenon, though; the word was coined in 1812 when Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry went to such egregious lengths to redraw the state senate districts in his party's favor that one district took on the shape of a salamander.

Much has been written about how tribal we are getting. We see it in our social media feeds, and it is reflected in the increased polarization of our political parties along geographic and social divisions.

He is not a leader, he is just a Liberal (on Josh Frydenberg)

My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.

People love to talk about the old bipartisanship. But it wasn't really bipartisanship. Yeah, they had a different label. But they're replaced now by people with basically the same views.