Tim Pawlenty Quotes

Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.

I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

The Democrats in particular are do-nothing guys.

The Democrats complain; I choose to compete.

Tea party members of Congress do not want to legislate. They want to remonstrate.

You've heard me question whether the partisanship in Washington has made us, as a nation, ungovernable - and, indeed, Democrats are doing their very best to make sure of it.

A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

The Democrats have nothing to cheer but fear itself.

The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats.

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.

We don't need to allow any more Nancy Pelosies to wind up in Congress.

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

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

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.

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

I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party.

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

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.

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.

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.

Sometimes in Congress I believe change is impossible …. Democrats read too many polls to change the climate. Republicans benefit from the climate too much to want to change it.