Rick Santelli Quotes

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.

We have reached the point where politicians aren’t supposed to be political and the parties aren’t supposed to debate issues.

Bigger Than His Party.

I don't think that this should be politicized. But this is probably naive. In this environment, everything gets politicized.

Trump and Bernie Sanders are different sides of the same coin.

I am basically a supporter of Barack Obama - it is not easy to be a post-partisan president in a hyper-partisan era.

I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.

I can't go out with a Republican.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

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.

I wonder if liberal kids call liberal talk shows and ask how to get along in a conservative teacher's class? No. No. It doesn't happen, 'cause there's no thought of getting along.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.

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.

In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.

Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.