Jonah Goldberg Quotes

The only bipartisan place in D.C. is Brooks Brothers.

I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

I'm a proud Republican - there's no issue with that at all, so why can't I be a proud Republican and just try to solve problems?

You used to get legislation done by getting the moderates to agree. But we have no moderates now so it doesn’t get done

The people who show up at the early primaries are very passionate and not much interested in compromise.

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

While I have worked hard to bring folks to the middle to craft common-sense solutions to the many problems that confront our nation, Washington is mired in gridlock, gamesmanship and constant partisan bickering.

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.

Whether you are liberal or conservative, people seem to know the talking points for whatever the issue of the day is. Very rarely does it seem like these are opinions that people are coming up with themselves; it's like they watched the right cable news channel, and now they know what they are supposed to think, and they repeat that.

It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.

In the first weeks of the Obama administration, 'bipartisanship' was the reigning buzzword, and when the Beltway thinks 'bipartisan,' it pictures President Reagan and Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill putting aside their differences and forging a legislative partnership, a ruddy pair of genial patriarchs bonding over the Blarney Stone.

Campaigns are partisan. Governing should not be partisan.

There are some in Congress who would rather see their opponents lose than see their country win. That has got to stop…. They must find a way to put country ahead of party.

The middle in Congress is gone now. That is where we got most things done.

Bill Clinton worked with a Republican Congress. They certainly had their differences on many issues, but look at what they also accomplished. Welfare reform - that was maybe the most significant social policy achievement in two generations.

I don't enjoy politics. I like to get things done, and I like Republicans and Democrats, and that doesn't always work well.

I'm pretty happy not to be an insider anymore. There's just no common ground. I don't know if it's distrust or that the politics is substantially more partisan than the public. But there's no pressure to make a grand bargain on fiscal matters, on growth, on anything.

My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate.

I get along with the Democrats, but please - I'm not their hero.

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

We are past opposition. I mean, we've crossed that threshold before [Donald] Trump was inaugurated.

It used to be that Democrats and Republicans would disagree, but they could be social to each other. There were times during the year that we acted together in the good of the country.

I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.

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