George Washington Quotes

I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.

This spirit [of Party], unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under different shapes in all Governments, more or less stifled, controuled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.

I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.

Partisanship has gotten worse and worse.

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

Let me now warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another. In governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.

The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

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

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

Nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties.

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic.

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

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 issue between the Republicans and the Democrats is clearly drawn. It has been deliberately drawn by those who have been in charge of twenty years of treason.

A factious spirit prevails from one end of our country to the other. And by that spirit both Senators and Representatives are chosen. By that spirit the government acts; and, as to the provisions of the Constitution, however they may fill up the space of a speech to round off a period, or perfume a flower of rhetoric, they cannot restrain men heated in the chase of party game.

There are some in Congress who would rather see their opponents lose than see their country win. That has got to stop…. They must find a way to put country ahead of party.

Party spirit is in England an incurable disease.

The cleavages Trump has revealed are too deep

It is uncomfortable seeing how very divisive politics has become.

I've never been a fan of party politics.

Every time you work on a political campaign, half the people hate you. That's how it is.

There is very little chance of the modern Republican Party putting the national interest above their own partisan interests.

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.