Donald Trump Quotes

So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.

One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.

Like most Americans, I feel disgusted when we see people make decisions based on party politics rather than a solution that is best for the country.

Here's the problem of the Democratic Party... There's no Breitbart. The problem in the Democratic Party? They haven't had a civil war.

It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.

Republicans and Democrats spend so much time fighting and then they're all aghast, you know, and so it's just not the way we ought to be. The coarseness is not acceptable.

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

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

I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part.

The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized.

In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.

Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.

I think that what is truly unfortunate is when an entire party makes a decision that they're going to block every single thing that a president wants to accomplish. It's very - it's very hard to get anything done in those circumstances.

There is a visceral dislike of George Bush, and it's going to bring these guys together.

Part of the tribalness of politics is to really dislike the other side with intensity. And the more I see of them the more I hate them.

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

We need less bipartisanship in Congress.

The middle in Congress is gone now. That is where we got most things done.

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.

Democratic, Republican members of Congress get along fine. But what you have is this institutional Hatfield and McCoy sentiment coming from our constituents, where the base of both sides doesn't want people to get along. But the majority of Americans, I feel, the majority, they are in the middle. They actually do want both sides to get together.

I've had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress.

I am basically a supporter of Barack Obama - it is not easy to be a post-partisan president in a hyper-partisan era.

Growing up in the 1980s, I remember when the GOP was the party of ideas. Now it's brain dead.

There is an extensive body of writing from both sides of the political aisle that has analyzed the extraordinary depths of hatred leveled at former President George W. Bush.

Believe me, I bash liberals for being mean-spirited and angry, but there are plenty on my side who are the same way.