Quotes About Partisanship

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

With the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the Republican political establishment has done something it is not actually used to doing. It won. It isn't that Republicans have never won before, it is just that they typically win by forfeit.

Supreme Court justices should not be an extension of the Republican Party.

President Obama had two Supreme Court nominees in his first term. There was no filibuster against them.

When President Donald Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to serve on the Supreme Court, I said that he deserved a fair hearing and a vote. I said this even though Senate Republicans filibustered dozens of President Obama's judicial nominees and then stopped President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick Garland.

If the Left can unilaterally impeach and try to remove a president during an election year, a Supreme Court justice can certainly be appointed during an election year.

I am not surprised that this is a longer bit of work than many of us would have hoped. It is not where any of us would have hoped it is. And I think we need to give credit to the Republicans in Congress who have done everything they can to defeat every jobs bill and slow down the economy.

I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.

Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive.

big reason this criminal enterprise has been so successful is that it would require the press and the voters to "agree" both parties are thoroughly corrupt. Honest reporting about this "Criminal Underground

And this is a small point by comparison, but why do Republicans persist in substituting Democrat, with its rat ending, when Democratic would be correct? Because they want us to know, in every word they speak, how much they hold us in contempt. In my lifetime, the Republicans have never accepted a Democratic president as legitimate, no matter how many people vote for him [or her.])

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.

Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke? In other words, did someone do this to (Democratic Senator Tim Johnson)? ...I know what this [Republican] party is capable of.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican.

The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.

According to federal reports filed yesterday, the Obama campaign spent more money than they raised in the month of May. They spent more money than they raised? Well, that's called being a Democrat

If you ask what's best for the country, vote Republican. If you ask how will you get more money from the government, vote Democrat

... while the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em.

I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

I hope America manages to steer itself away from partisanship and back to patriotism; we are all Americans. And as long as I can make people laugh and feel better, I'm happy.