Alexander Nix Quotes

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

As for politics, I share good relations with people across parties, not any particular one.

When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.

I'm not a Republican, and I'm not a Democrat.

You see, to me, it doesn't really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly don't give a damn about who belongs to either political party.

I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders.

I've done work for both Democrats and Republicans.

The man who is of neither party, is not—cannot be, of any consequence.

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.

The antidote to frenzied partisanship won’t be found in politics as usual but in problem-solving leaders who govern from the center.

It is often remarked that I am very close to Mr. Modi. But when it comes to issues of national importance, I've never indulged in politics or considered whether the Prime Minister is from the opposition.

I consider myself neither liberal nor conservative when it comes to foreign policy.

You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.

In the ordinary and low sense which we attach to the words "partisan" and "politician," a judge of the supreme court should be neither. But in the higher sense ... he is not in my judgment fitted for the position unless he is a party man, a constructive statesman ... keeping in mind his relations with his fellow statesmen in other branches of government.

I will not dismiss, or drop from Executive offices, able and faithful political opponents to provide for my own partisans.

Being of no party, I shall offend all parties:—never mind! My words at least, are more sincere and hearty Than if I sought to sail before the wind.

I care not for party. I stand here without party …. Englishmen, rid yourself of all that political jargon and factious slang of Whig and Tory

I don’t chose my friends and associates on the basis of political party. The Senate has become altogether too nasty.

Sworn to no party, Of no sect am I; I won't keep quiet And I will not lie.

If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will maybe be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.

I am not a Federalist because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatsoever

You do not compromise with the right wing of the Republican party.

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.

Our two-party system has served us well over the years, but never better than in those times of great challenge when we came together not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans united in a common cause.

Wisdom is not the province of only one party.