Red State/Blue State Quotes

Politically speaking, Miami-Dade was once a Republican stronghold, thanks in large part to older Cuban voters who became more politically influential following the Bay of Pigs invasion. In contrast, Democrats used to rely on votes in North Florida and the Space Coast in an era of much softer partisanship.

Michigan will be Democratic in some years and Republican in some years. I don't think we'll ever make the mistake like we did in 2016 and not turn out again.

Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.

The biggest challenge I have with Washingtonians is they think Illinois is exclusively a Democratic state.

I'm proud that Colorado delivered a victory to Barack Obama in 2008 and we will do so again in 2012.

I think it's a tremendous opportunity, particularly given the complexion of the overall voter structure in California. It's very hard for a Republican to get elected.

There is no real third party in America. There's this one party that has two sides to it - the Democratic and Republican side. It's one party that has two heads.

The 2016 election unquestionably deepened the divide between liberals and conservatives.

I hear you're losing Ohio, but we're doing fine in Pennsylvania.

I never voted for a Democrat at the state or national level.

The radicalized populace in liberal havens like California and New York seek to impose their socialist utopian ideology on those law-abiding, everyday Americans who live in what elite, coastal liberals derisively refer to as 'flyover country.'

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

There is no reason why the right Democratic nominee can't win Ohio. President Obama did it twice in 2008 and 2012.

I'm not, like, some big Hillary supporter. I'm a Republican.

The politics of division are not what we want in New Jersey and Virginia and elsewhere.

Admittedly, no Republican can get elected statewide in California anymore, but nor can what we think of as, nationally, the Democratic Party. There are no Joe Bidens running; it is not working-class Democrats vs. liberal Democrats, or whatever their division is these days. It is Hispanic Democrats vs. Asian Democrats.

I think the post-Rick-Perry Texas is a Texas that is more competitive between the Democrats and Republicans. I think the Republicans still have a huge advantage, but I think if we're arguing that competition is good for the system, then I think a stronger two-party system in Texas is inevitable, and I think that it will happen.

A lot of people think I'm crazy, you know, leaving a Democratic supermajority state to go to the superminority in Congress.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.

In America you've got a one party state except that you've got two of them.

I'm not even proud to say this, but I've never voted for a Republican in my entire life.

It's always an uphill battle. You know, I'm a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue.

My mom and dad are Republicans. At least two of my brothers are.