Partisan Divisions Quotes

We can't disrespect, by way discounting or misunderstanding our different sticking points, the beliefs of the various groups comprising the tea party movement, but we all have more in common with each other than we do with factions on the Left: the communists, the socialists, the say-they're-anarchists-but-are-actually-socialists.

Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.

I don't think polarization is some kind of grand distraction. It's real. People have different commitments, believe in different things and principles, different visions of the good life ... but there is also a degree to which all the really big, successful reform movements in the country had extremely bizarre ideological coalitions.

I came into politics to fight lefties... That's where political fighting goes.

It is true that a house divided against itself is a house that cannot stand. There is division in the American house now and believing this as I do, I have concluded that I should not permit the Presidency to become involved in the partisan divisions that are developing in this political year. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.

Republican presidential debates have become contests of who can terrify viewers the most.

They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.