Heather Cox Richardson Quotes

We are America. They [Democrats] are not America.

I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.

Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence.

Is it that you hate this president or that you hate America?

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

Liberals and the Democratic Party are demonic.

The Right doesn't usually threaten to leave the country. When the Right feels threatened, it just declares it is going to invent a time machine to take the country back so that America can be 'great again.'

The Democrat Party is a shrinking and dwindling hate group. That's literally what they've become.

I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of patriotism can crush.

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.

I'm much more concerned about America than the Democratic Party.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.

I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.

Most Republicans who are registered Republicans are decent, honest good people who you have a difference of opinion with. The leadership of the Republican Party are a bunch of sociopathic maniacs who have their lips super-glued to the ass of the conservative right

When your country is in dire straits, it doesn't matter whether you're a social democrat or not.

When I hear things like 'unpatriotic,' I just chalk it up to a lot of political rhetoric.

When it comes to explaining the phenomenon of right-wing populism, liberals are likely to argue both that the populist era has exposed a darkness always present at the heart of conservative politics and that a toxic, post-truth new-media ecosystem has greased the skids for President Trump, Brexit and the rest.

I would like to be one of the people responsible for getting Elizabeth Warren out of politics. She's a nightmare. The Left's holding her up as the second coming of Hillary Clinton; Lord knows we don't need the first.

For many on the left a hateful anti-Americanism has become a self-congratulatory lifestyle.

At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution.

Howard Dean is a cruel and extremist demagogue. And Howard Dean is as ignorant on John Ashcroft as he is on national security. If this cruel, loudmouth extremist is the cream of the Democrat crop, next November's going to make the 1984 election look like a squeaker.

It's an interesting place to begin where the country is completely divided into choosing sides, when the only side everyone should be choosing is the side of America, and then politicians essentially should be arguing about the best way to serve America.