Polarization of Politics Quotes

After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered.

You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.

Republicans will criticize whatever President Obama does because that is what they do.

The history of the modern Republican Party is the story of moderates being driven out and conservatives taking over - and then of those conservatives in turn being ousted by those even further to the right.

As the polarization in D.C. spreads, the people willing to come to the middle find less and less acceptance.

I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith.

The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.

That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles.

Congress is dysfunctional.

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

There aren’t any independents anymore.

I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.

And by the way to call Mitch McConnell a leader is a misnomer because he is not leading.

I think part of the problem that the Republicans have is that the base has, in many cases, certain litmus test issues on which they are black and white on their thinking.

You know you have a problem in American politics when they're making 'House of Cards' look normal.