Quotes about Political Intransigence

Timothy Noah

When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.

Nancy Pelosi

They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.

James K. Polk

No Federalist over the age of 30 has ever changed his mind on anything

Cate Blanchett

There's very little reason in politics these days.

Jon Stewart

If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not with Republicans? Maybe he's not the problem.

William Shatner

The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.

Charles James Fox

[Describing Edmund Burke:] Burke was a damned wrong-headed fellow, through his whole life obstinate and jealous.

Will Rogers

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Margaret Thatcher

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

Richard Lugar

My Republican compatriots do not feel that people ought to work with Democrats across the aisle—Compromise is a bad word.

In 2011 nd 2012 a right wing extremist group—the Tea Party-were able to intimidate the Republican Congressional leadership to take the extreme partisan view that why would allow no significant legislation to pass as it might strengthen Democrat president Obama’s chances of getting reelected. Therefore there was to be no cooperation or even negotiations with the Democrats in Congress. Lugar a highly respected Republican Statesman, and expert on Foreign Affairs, followed his usual pattern of trying to develop legislation that would benefit the country. The Tea Party and some of the more partisan regular republicans then ran a candidate in the state primary election sending huge amounts of money to defeat Lugar who was a sure winner in the general election as he was very popular with all groups in Indiana ecept the right wing extremists, racists and fascists. Lugar never had the chance to win the election. He was defeated in the primary for working with Democrats.

Mike Gallagher

Believe me, I bash liberals for being mean-spirited and angry, but there are plenty on my side who are the same way.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by which they have once won office.

Howard Dean

You do not compromise with the right wing of the Republican party.

Alexander Hamilton

I dread the reveries of you philosophic politicians.

Valerie Jarrett

Where I underestimated the opposition was how willing Republicans in Congress would be to put their short-term political interests ahead of what they knew was good for their country. That was extremely disappointing.

Jacob Rees-Mogg

There is sometimes an almost vindictive streak in politics whereby governments follow policies which they know will harm the electorate, but nonetheless, they keep them, sometimes for years. The Corn Laws are a classic example.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Any initiative which patently served the interests of society was immediately viewed with suspicion and even with overt hostility. Why was our system so unresponsive to renewal and innovation?

Damon Galgut

South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.

Paul Wellstone

I wasn’t elected to get into back room deals with Jesse Helms. I’ve despised Jesse Helms since I was 18 years old.

At the time Jesse Helms, an arch conservative, was a very powerful senator with a great deal of seniority. As such most senators had to work with him to get many things done. Ironically, despite the fact that he and Helms were on polar opposite political sides, they developed a personal working relationship which was quite cordial.

Political Intransigence Quotes