Political Infighting Quotes

Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.

There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?

Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

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.

I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the partisanship, the gridlock, the pettiness, and the corruption.

Jaya Prada was thrown out of TDP by Chandrababu Naidu which is why she came to Samajwadi Party. She knows even less of Rampur than she does of Andhra Pradesh.

Political rivalry is one thing but personal smear campaigns scrape the barrel of political infighting.

Backbiting and second guessing are endemic to losing campaigns.

Everyone in Washington knows what needs to be done. They just don’t do it because there’s always someone else they can blame.

I'm not going to get down in the gutter with DeSantis and Trump - there's enough of that going on.

I think Mitch McConnell and, to a degree, Paul Ryan - they do not want Donald Trump's populist, economic nationalist agenda to be implemented. It's very obvious.

The Democratic party is really just a giant day care center for squabbling little groups.

I have always been able to take care of the enemy in my front, but I have never been able to protect myself from the enemy in my rear [domestic politics and politicians].

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.

Politics has been very good to me. Politics can become, and often is, very brutal

Trump has hired people who have sabotaged him.

The last thing I will pay attention to is any of the usual Washington back and forth.

When Margaret Thatcher was leader, she and Michael Heseltine were hardly soulmates, but she would not have allowed personal rivalry to take the heat off the Labour Party, whose own deep internal divisions are buried in other news now, nor would she have countenanced any attempt to have a show trial.

The Democrats fought with the conservatives. The Republicans fought with the liberals. The Bull Moosers fought with everybody.

The little Napoleons in UMNO try to keep out people who are more intelligent than themselves.

Ya know what's fun? When Democrats start calling each other sexist.

When three liberals get together they form a new party; that is their idea of individualism. They never join a bowling club without introducing as part of the 'agenda' an 'amendment of the statutes.

I grew up with an infestation of politics. I'm just nuts about it. It's our form of gladiators in the arena, only they are not in quite as good a shape.

I would prefer that in the Republican party, we not engage in trying to destroy each other, because all that does is hand the election over to the Democrats. I don't know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they'll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening.

I couldn't stand the politics in opera.