Brandi Carlile Quotes

The Republican and Democratic parties have accomplished an amazing feat with the red state/blue state paradigm. They've convinced everyone that regardless of how bad they are, the other guy is worse.

There is nothing I dread so much as a division of the Republic into two great political parties, each arranged under its leader and converting measures in opposition to each other.

In this country there are two parties: the righteous and the fallacious

Liberals and the Democratic Party are demonic.

We need less bipartisanship in Congress.

What has happened is we've allowed the people who run policies in this country to sort of make us pick Left and the Right as if those are the only two choices.

I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that the majority have some sense of what it means to be one or the other.

Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.

Too many politicians are shifting the critical themes of our national conversations from a 'big ideas' American Brand Platform to narrowly focused, polarizing sound bites that put party philosophy before what used to be heralded as the common good. These ideas, more often than not, divide us rather than serve to bind us.

We can't allow ourselves to descend down the rabbit hole of unbridled partisanship for partisan sake.

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

I wouldn’t be too serious about bipartisanship. It’s a great myth that ought to be fostered. And don’t bring too damn much scholarship to bear on it. You’ll prove it out of existence if you’re not careful.

People want divided government.

Politics has become a little like football. We cheer for our favorite team no matter how well they are playing.

I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas.

A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.

Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.

I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.