Steve Bullock Quotes

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.

I don't enjoy politics. I like to get things done, and I like Republicans and Democrats, and that doesn't always work well.

While I am grateful for the friendships and relationships that I have with my Republican colleagues, it would be naive to pretend that those friendships will change the way that major policies are enacted in Arizona.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

I love the Upper West Side. I walk down the street all the time and am stopped by Democrats. I don't think they've ever actually met a Republican before.

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

We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.

I appeal to people all across the political spectrum.

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?

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'

Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the more political knowledge people have, the more apt they are to discuss politics with people who agree with, and reinforce, them.

He loved politicians—even Republicans

In my opinion, the polarization of our politics has mostly been brought about by the massive infusion of money—mostly spent on negative advertising that create divisions among the population that watches television and the two parties.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

I'm pretty happy not to be an insider anymore. There's just no common ground. I don't know if it's distrust or that the politics is substantially more partisan than the public. But there's no pressure to make a grand bargain on fiscal matters, on growth, on anything.

In golf, a wedge issue means just that: You can't hit your sand wedge, or your lob wedge needs to be regrooved. In politics, a wedge issue is more serious still: It's one that splits the electorate, dividing voters along ideological fault lines.

I would rather sit down with a Hollywood liberal any day than simply surround myself with fellow conservatives.

My own students say they don't trust anyone who voted for Trump. How can you have a democracy with that?

There are things that some Democrats say I agree with and some things that I disagree with. And it's the same with the Republicans.

I would tell the Democrats in Washington who are trying to be civil with the "bipartisanship" to please stop and let the joker die once and for all, let the agents of chaos hit the pavement, stop picking them up.

Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.

I'm a Democrat, but I'm really bipartisan - some people might say nonpartisan.

I can't go out with a Republican.