Political parties Quote by Walter Stahr

The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“Political parties are on the hunt to search and destroy each other, as though we were involved in some kind of enemy combat, rather…

— John Lewis

“Yet, we worry. American politicians now treat their rivals as enemies, intimidate the free press, and threaten to reject the results of elections.”

— Steven Levitsky

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

— Thomas E. Mann

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

— John McDonnell

“You defined yourself by your enemy’s reaction. Conflict was the media bait—hence, now, the political chum. The new politics was not the art of…

— Michael Wolff

“Politics is beginning to gather itself into an election season in which the price of a candidate's haircuts will be as important for a…

— Charles P. Pierce

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

— Danny Strong

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

— George Will

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process…

— Anonymous

National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body…

— Tariq Ramadan

A primary campaign can get very intense and times nasty. But it's never going to be quite as vicious as between-parties rivalry.

— Ruth Marcus