Partisan Conflict Quotes

Politics is such a torment that I would advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

As I say, I can't wait until Congress - half of Congress can get pregnant so we can quit fighting about birth control and Planned Parenthood.

The media increase the political nastiness while distancing voters from those clashes. Citizens become spectators. ­Headline-­driven news emphasizes the extremes, the fights, the hysteria, the sensational. Political reporters, trying to appear objective by quoting two opposing sides to almost every story, mostly sharpen the differences, slighting any centrist position.

If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.

We can't have the government of the United States shut down when a group doesn't like something. This is almost an act of insurrection.

Congress is almost totally dysfunctional right now. All we've done this year and my first year in the Senate ... is barely keep the doors open.

Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they're just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country.

The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.

Our citizens never hesitate to take sides against one another, whether it's Democrats versus Republicans, Coke drinkers opposed to Pepsi enthusiasts or Yankee loyalists against Red Sox aficionados.

Donald Trump is a mainstream conservative who wants to profoundly take on the left. The left is infuriated that anybody would challenge the legitimacy of their moral superiority. And so the left goes hysterical.

Democrats are so enraged by President Trump that they have shown their willingness to undo the votes of 63 million Americans.

Politics is about divisions. Wherever you come in on the subject, there are divisions.

A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.

The evidence of our divided racial self was all over the Obama presidency from the beginning: from the shouts of 'you lie' from the well of Congress as he spoke to a joint session, to the unprecedented spectacle of American conservatives rooting against their own country being awarded the Olympic Games.

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

These days everything is discussed in terms of political partisan perspective including the weather—especially the weather.

The liberals are fighting so hard whenever President Bush appoints any federal judges.

Arnold said this is a last minute attack by Democrats. How did Arnold know to grope only Democrats?

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.

We are fighting the communal BJP on the one hand and the corrupt Congress on the other.

Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.

At the [U. S.] House [of Representatives], Stephen Douglas, of Illinois, the author of the majority report from the Committee of Elections, had taken the floor last evening, and now raved out his hour in abusive invective upon the members who had pointed out its slanders, and upon the Whig party. His face was convulsed, his gesticulations frantic, and he lashed himself into such a heat that if his body had been made of combustible matter it would have burnt out. In the midst of his roaring, to save himself from choking, he stripped off and cast away his cravat, unbuttoned his waistcoat, and had the air and aspect of a half-naked pugilist. And this man comes from a judicial bench, and passes for an eloquent orator!

The Democrats have tried the war against women in the past. It didn't really have that much traction.