1950s Quote by Thomas E. Mann

Partisanship has gotten worse and worse.

— John Hickenlooper

Over the course of two terms, President Reagan revolutionized the Republican Party and changed the political atmosphere in a way still being felt today.

— Anonymous

Partisanship is nothing new. I grew up in a household where appliances that broke had 'gone Democrat.'

— Margaret Hoover

The history of the modern Republican Party is the story of moderates being driven out and conservatives taking over - and then of those…

— Max Boot

I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.

— Luis Fortuno

We'll always romanticize the past. We did not have this great, glorious era where everything was bipartisan and everything worked, but there was room…

— Steve Kornacki

I went to my first national convention in 1976, when my family supported [Ronald] Reagan over [Gerald] Ford, so we've always been Republicans, but…

— Rand Paul

The Republican Party, in many ways, grew up as a reaction to that [ segregation], and a lot of people have misunderstood that.

— Jeff Sessions

After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered.

— Mitch McConnell

Historically, Democrats have been far more united than Republicans when it comes to policy, ideology and public debate.

— Katie Pavlich

John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties.

— Frank Mankiewicz

The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete…

— Herbert Croly