Partisans Quotes - Page 11

• George W. Bush has deliberately polarized and divided America for political purposes, politicizing the most basic questions of war and peace for partisan advantage.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  War, America, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There are two outstanding issues in democratic politics these days. One is the relationship with the media, which is now 24/7, and operates with a completely different intensity than even 15 or 20 years ago. How do we have a proper conversation between leaders and country when it's moderated sometimes in a very partisan and inflammatory way? And the second thing is the effectiveness of our democracy. How do we get the right gene and talent pool in politics?

  Tony Blair

  Country, Media, Years

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The trouble is nowadays that parts of the media operate in a very partisan way. There's no point in complaining about it, that's the way it is. But let's be clear, a lot of it is driven by the views of a pretty small number of people, rather than a normal standard of journalism.

  Tony Blair

  Views, Media, Numbers

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• These are career non-partisan apolitical staffers with a combined 150 years of experience at the State Department gone, just like that right off the top [right after Secretary Rex Tillerson was sworn in].

  Rachel Maddow

  Years, Careers, Gone

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

  Alice Walker

  Understanding, Add, Movement

  Alice Walker (2011). “In Search of Our Mother's Gardens”, p.267, Hachette UK

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• The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Character, People

  Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Jerome Hopkins (1968). “The Ambrose Bierce satanic reader: selections from the invective journalism of the great satirist”

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• If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it's common sense. Our physical health, our social happiness, and our economic well-being will be sustained only by all of us working in partnership as thoughtful, effective stewards of our natural resources.

  Ronald Reagan

  Thoughtful, Past, Common Sense

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory can contend that what distinguishes the genius from the dullard is entirely the effect of postnatal influences.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Doctrine, Genius, Facts

  Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.331, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president is to get the people in the room and to bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country's and the state's greater interests ahead of their own personal interests.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Jobs, America

  "Veepstakes hits high gear at CPAC" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Caring for veterans shouldn’t be a partisan issue. It should an American one.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Caring, American Veterans, Issues

  "Honor Sacrifice by Supporting Vets" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

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• I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.

  Ted Turner

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Philosophical, Animal, Thoughtful

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “The Health Guide”

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• I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Blessing, Simple, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

  Mitch McConnell

  Aggravation, Want, Administration

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• Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Responsibility, Law, Outcomes

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• Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

  Juan Cole

  Classroom, Partisan Politics

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• For all the talk about the bitterness and the partisanship in American politics, is it really that bitter and partisan? Think of American history. Think of Joseph McCarthy. Think of the New Left. Think of [George] McGovern. Think of [Ronald] Reagan. Think of George Wallace. We've had an awful lot of real extremism on both wings.

  William Kristol

  Real, Thinking, Wings

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• Despite 18 years as a non-partisan public servant, my deeper "tribal" affinity has always been Tory. The Afghanistan file has given me an additional reason to cleave to that side of the spectrum. Canadian Conservatives have generally been more comfortable and confident with hard security issues.

  Chris Alexander

  Years, Issues, Sides

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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