Deb Haaland Quotes

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

We [Republicans] don’t need any new ideas.

People ask me about if, being a Republican, you guys want to cut everything and stop everything and not help people. I find that patently false.

I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

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.

I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.

I think if you look all across the country, the so-called Blue Dogs are all gone to kennel. There are no more Blue Dogs, they're called Republicans. People would rather elect consistently conservative Republicans than Blue Dogs, who are only conservative when it's convenient.

Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.

It's not politically incorrect to say you're Republican or conservative.

American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead.

I do not think that the social conservative movement have the ability to elect a President but they have the ability to block.

Too often on social issues my party has painted an image of America as slouching towards Gomorrah.

George W. Bush … was ideologically obsessed.

We're movers, forward thinkers, people who get things done. But the Tea Party and Republicans like Bob Dold are holding us back.

The political Right is particularly vehement when it comes to compromise. Conservatives are now strongly swayed by the Tea Party movement, whose clarion call is a refusal to compromise regardless of the practical consequences.

I wasn't looking for a hobby. If I were looking for a hobby, it wouldn't be the United States Senate. That's one of the toughest jobs I'd probably ever do. I just felt there wasn't enough compromise going on: People were too far to the left, too far to the right, with no one trying to build a compromise.

I think the Tories are doing - and are intent on doing - damage to things I hold dear.

In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right.

What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.

Unfortunately, our country has become so politically polarized that one side routinely attempts to destroy and discredit the other.