Robert J. Bentley Quotes

There's no such thing as a partisan base.

I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want to be in the same city - forget the same stage - with President Obama.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

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.

I get along with the Democrats, but please - I'm not their hero.

Any Republican who says he can work with Hillary Clinton is a traitor to the nation.

You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.

I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.

I'm a proud Republican - there's no issue with that at all, so why can't I be a proud Republican and just try to solve problems?

Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.

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.

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.

There are no factions in the Liberal Party.

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

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

Men have differed in opinion and been divided into parties by these opinions from the first origin of societies, and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak. The same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed through all time.

They have the Republican Party of President Eisenhower. They have the Republican Party of Senator Taft. They have the Republican Party of Senator Morse. And somewhere—way out behind the Chicago Tribune tower is—the Republican Party of Senator McCarthy with one foot heavy in Greece and the other foot in Secretary Dulles' security files. It makes bipartisanship right difficult. We Democrats need to know which one of the Republican Parties to be bipartisan with; and which one of the Republican Parties to be bipartisan against.

I was ashamed to call myself a Republican during that period.

Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line

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.

My definition of bipartisanship is Democrats agreeing with Republicans

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