Campbell Brown Quotes

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

The Tea Party people are ideologues. They are right, and no one can change their minds. There is no reason for compromise.

For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the Congress.

Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the respectable Beltway variety and he will twist himself into a pretzel denying it.

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it.

The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.

There's a huge cost in being bipartisan, a tradition started by Newt Gingrich when he took over the House in 1994 and has continued forward, that you dare not vote against the Republican Party even if you're voting against your own initiatives and your own interests.

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.

With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the Tea Party.

Abandoning traditions of responsibility and civility won the GOP control of both houses of Congress in 1994. Rejecting any compromise brought Republicans the perks and power of majority control for the first time in 40 years. Thus did the politics of total resistance become their path of least resistance.

When activists say we need to move past the partisan divide, what they mean is: Shut up and get with my program. Have you ever heard anyone say, "We need to get past all of this partisan squabbling and name-calling. That's why I'm going to abandon all my objections and agree with you"?

There's never a perfect bipartisan bill in the eyes of a partisan.

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

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.

It's a sad commentary on where politics is today. If someone disagrees with you, you're either Attila the Hun or a leftist liberal.

I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic.

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.

The Democrats have responded to the Republicans' lack of dealing with reality by truly not dealing with reality, either.

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?

Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition.

Like most Americans, I feel disgusted when we see people make decisions based on party politics rather than a solution that is best for the country.

There are voices in the Republican Party today who preach pragmatism, who champion conciliation, who counsel compromise. I stand here today to reject those deceptions.

As a partisan Republican, I am concerned by the fact that the John Birch Society has picked my party ... as a vehicle to promulgate its monolithic philosophy. There are three organizations in this country which give me grave doubts as a citizen: the Communist Party, the Ku Klux Klan, and the John Birch Society.