Thomas S. Foley Quotes

We can't allow ourselves to descend down the rabbit hole of unbridled partisanship for partisan sake.

In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.

We did not seek ideological confrontation.

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.

I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.

At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.

The Democrats complain; I choose to compete.

Congress, too, has changed in our time. There has grown a certain divisiveness. We have seen the hard looks and heard the statements in which not each other's ideas are challenged, but each other's motives. And our great parties have too often been far apart and untrusting of each other.

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

I have no love for the Republicans, but the Democrats drive me absolutely crazy.

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.

Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.

There is nothing I dread so much as a division of the Republic into two great political parties, each arranged under its leader and converting measures in opposition to each other.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

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

All cause groups, left and right, depend on who’s attacking them.

The dilemma of modern progressive politics is that you are always fighting on two fronts: The conservatives on the right, and the conservatives on the left.

What if you are a conservative in a liberal environment? Then what you are conserving is liberalism.

There is a generation or two of intelligent people … Then comes a political catastrophe, and we have to begin all over again. We are so deeply divided between Catholics and liberals, right wing and left, that one-half can never profit by the knowledge and achievements of the other.

You cannot fight a people who are fighting for an ideology with no ideas of your own.

The explosive political issues of our time are issues of values rather than interests.

We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.