A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.
I am not pollyannaish about the deep partisan battles that divide us.
The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.
It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.
At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.
I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.
I think partisanship is probably the greatest problem in Washington, D.C.
The tone is toxic here in Washington and we are exporting it around the country.
I think we've got to make a case that I'm ready, that I put my country first, and it's time to put aside partisan rancor and differences and work together for the country and that I can create jobs and restore our economy and keep our country safe.
Nasty is the new normal in Florida. Politics here is very gutterlike. It's like a very bad reality TV show that still gets very high ratings.
The Republican party has become as hostile towards its own base as the Liberals have always been.
