Quotes About Partisanship

I used to love politics. I can't say I do any more. All the fun has gone out of it. Each side is engaged in this trench warfare of managerialism. They're all too scared to say anything that might make them appear something other than completely bland.

It's true that if you advise politicians on economic policy in the U.S. today, you spend your time in a cross between inquiry and combat. You are always on the periphery of harsh partisan warfare that has nothing to do with substance.

Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.

C. Everett 'Chic' Koop became U.S. Surgeon General under President Reagan. He was a world renowned pediatric surgeon who had a tumultuous Senate confirmation process due to partisanship. Chic took office in January 1982, a time of 'tobacco wars' and a new and evolving terrifying disease that we ultimately came to know as AIDS.

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

In short, I will never allow partisanship to undermine our national security when the lives of countless people lay in the balance. If that earns me enemies in Washington or at the State Department, then so be it.

You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority ' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

The only difference between Republicans and Democrats is the velocity at which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on the door.

Jana Sangh ko vote do, bidi peena chhod do/ Bidi mein tambaku hai, Kangresswala daku hai'.

Republicans are one health crisis away from being Democrats?

I've found that Californians care less about the 'R' or 'D,' by a candidate's name, and more about whether you can get the job done.

It's important for us all to elect people not just on blind party loyalty. We've got to really examine what candidates say and do.

The left and right are not religious categories. They're often not even value categories.

I represent the Democratic party... I've never been nor do I ever plan to be a John McCain supporter. I support Barack Obama.

Trump loves free speech only when he or his supporters are speaking.

What's interesting is that you've got a lot of overlap between supporters of different parties and different candidates who feel regardless of who's been in power, the rich have got richer and half the country's got poorer.

These days, those who criticize the Union government are being labelled as anti-BJP and those praise it as BJP supporters. Isn't there any middle path?

You're either on team Republican or team Democrat, and it's the idea that one of these sides has a perfect record of being correct and is worth supporting on 100% of the causes. I find that kind of thinking extremely dangerous and very intellectually dishonest.

I have given to Democrats in the past. I've always believed in supporting the best candidate at the time.

Well, I don't think any of the Republicans have expressed any interest in supporting the vision of Robert Kennedy at all. At least I haven't seen that.

Look, there is no question the Hollywood crowd predominantly supports Democrats. But within Los Angeles, there's a big community, and there's a large community of support for the Republican party and Republican candidates.

There is no question: the Hollywood crowd predominantly supports Democrats.