Stewart Udall Quotes

We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.

It's one thing to earnestly try but fail to bring the two sides together. Though Democrats will deny it, that was the case with George W. Bush.

What I have said is, when the American people elect divided government, what are they saying? I think they're saying we know you have differences of opinion on big things.

Few believe Democrats will control both houses of Congress in 2021, and even if they manage to, Republicans will still be around to play spoiler on plenty of big agenda items.

People have been upset about the tenor and discord in Washington for a really long time.

When Trump was elected, there were three parties in Washington: the Trump party, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.

It's no great secret, number one, in my view, and I think the view of most Americans, that Congress itself is pretty dysfunctional. We are not addressing the real needs of the American people. And second of all, philosophically, there is a huge division between the House and the Senate.

If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business.

Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.

My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were perfect foils for that story.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.

We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration's problems.

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.

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.

My husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends.

It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

To abolish all distinctions of party may not be practicable, perhaps not desirable, in a free government

Republicans hate government ... So they let us Democrats run it for them.

The polarization of American politics is the proximate cause of the ongoing budget deficit…. Lately, the ideological center in Congress has thinned, and the distance between the parties has widened. Compromise has come to be seen as surrender—and the U. S. Government has all but come to a halt.

Obama has been the victim of bad luck in having an implacable Republican Party.

The wheels of compromise lose traction as Congress sinks into an ooze of dysfunction.