Jason Kander Quotes

I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party.

Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the respectable Beltway variety and he will twist himself into a pretzel denying it.

Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

There is no fairness in partisan politics.

There's an ideological belief on the left that you should not use nonpartisan tools.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

There's no such thing as a partisan base.

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.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

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.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

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 suppose we could say of Gen. Cameron that he is not Democrat enough to hurt him.

Too many people in this town think about politics when they make every decision.

George W. Bush … was ideologically obsessed.

We [Republicans] don’t need any new ideas.

These days everything is discussed in terms of political partisan perspective including the weather—especially the weather.