S.E. Cupp Quotes

The Republican and Democratic parties have accomplished an amazing feat with the red state/blue state paradigm. They've convinced everyone that regardless of how bad they are, the other guy is worse.

You're either on the Republican team or the Democratic team, and all that matters is that your team wins. Judging by history, regardless of which team wins, the people always lose.

With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the Tea Party.

Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

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

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

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.

Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.

Congress, it turns out, is filled with Republicans and Democrats eager to act as enablers for the most repressive forces in Iran.

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

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-- and both commonly succeed, and are right.

Politics is not like a teeter totter. Just because one party goes down, it does not mean that they other party goes up.

In this country there are two parties: the righteous and the fallacious

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is like the difference between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dummer.

The public good is being compromised in the conflicts between our rival political parties.

I view the traditional two parties as in some ways very evil. They've become monsters that are out of control. The two parties don't have in mind what's best for Minnesota. The only things that are important to them are their own agendas and their pork. Government's become just a battle of power between the two parties.

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