Anthony Scaramucci Quotes

Politics in Washington is a contact sport. But it shouldn't be a personal animosity sport.

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

We’ve got the liberal bastards on the run, and we’re going to keep them on the run.

There are smart people on our side of the aisle who have known as early as I did who Obama was and should have been saying 'I hope this guy fails' right along with me. There should have been opposition to this guy all along.

The only bipartisan place in D.C. is Brooks Brothers.

While I have worked hard to bring folks to the middle to craft common-sense solutions to the many problems that confront our nation, Washington is mired in gridlock, gamesmanship and constant partisan bickering.

It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character.

You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.

I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.

The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

The enemy is not me. The enemy is Barack Obama.

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think it's bipartisan.

President Bush said that he wanted to change the tone in Washington. He has; it has gotten worse.

Why do Republicans fear debate? For the same reason baloney fears the slicer.

American politics shows again and again that the best explanation is an accusation.

There are some people who are so partisan that they do not live in the word the rest of us are in.

One of the reasons people feel so alienated from the American political process is in the fights we get in here in Washington, no one's ever talking about them and the challenges they're going through.

We're all tired of a Washington that has these partisan camps where nothing gets done.

Trump could teach Republicans in Washington a lot if only they stopped posturing long enough to watch carefully.

The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.

Washington is a complete mess. It's become a venue for partisan bickering, where the needs of the working class just don't matter.

People feel overwhelmed by the news cycle, and by this nagging feeling that the kind of vitriol out of Washington is just not how we are supposed to act as a government, and as a nation.

I would certainly say that politics in Washington has changed dramatically since 1980. It's gotten to be a nasty business with so much divisiveness. Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill could disagree totally on issues and then get together for a social event. We need to moderate on both sides.