Matt Gaetz Quotes

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.

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

There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between politicians of either major party.

Maybe the critics are right. Maybe there's no escaping our great political divide, an endless clash of armies, and any attempts to alter the rules of engagement are futile. Or maybe the trivialization of politics has reached a point of no return, so that most people see it as just one more diversion, a sport, with politicians our paunch-bellied gladiators and those who bother to pay attention just fans on the sidelines: We paint our faces red or blue and cheer our side and boo their side, and if it takes a late hit or cheap shot to beat the other team, so be it, for winning is all that matters. But I don't think so.

In our political system it’s easier to block action than to act.

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.

It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

The most biased people are the Democrats.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.

I've got three little kids at home, and I'm trying to save this country from itself. I'm not here to play political power games, and I've had enough of people playing political power games, and this has just gone on too long.

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?'

Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

Party divisions, whether on the whole operating for good or evil, are things inseparable from free government.

It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that have gone by, than to the controversies which these parties have actually to decide.

I wonder what she [his grandmother Queen Victoria] would have thought of a Labor Government?

There’s something deeply cultural about changing parties …. radio announcers and journalists can change either newspaper or radio or television stations and footballers can change teams, but there seems to be a deeper cultural thing about the notion of [political] defection, even if you haven’t changed your values along the way.

We Republicans came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.

The special interests drive both parties to their extremes.

It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.