Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

"It would seem to me to be the part of wisdom when you are dealing with humans to meet with them and see what you can get done; just to butt your head up against a stone wall is no good."

"Well, certainly it hasn't so far."

"Now, I quoted this: the number of times that on specific divisions, where the leaders of the two parties in the Congress divided, how often these particular chairmen voted with the administration prog..."

"I believe in the two-party system."