Lloyd Bentsen Quotes

We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.

I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.

I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.

I can't go out with a Republican.

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

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

Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

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

I'm always happy to see one of my Republican colleagues make a mistake.

We are becoming too much of a gaff-centric political culture.

Newt Gingrich developed a whole vocabulary of polarization in order to get Republican candidates elected.

I don't agree with Trump on everything.

But I'm proud to come from a family of Republicans and, yes, we have some spirited discussions in our family.

There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any difference,” Frank said. “It’s the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. … The bumper sticker I’m going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, ‘We’re not perfect, but they’re nuts.’

When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

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.

Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.

I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on both sides - not just anti-Republican, which is a real popular thing for a rap artist to do. If you dis Republicans, nobody will get mad. I think the two-party system sucks. It's absolutely ignorant.

While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.

In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.