Partisans Quotes - Page 3

• It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

  Colin Powell

  Nice, Raised, Nations

  "White House Unveils Health Care Plan Amid Republican Resistance" by Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. February 22, 2010.

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• After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.

  Christine Pelosi

  Effort, President, Allies

  "Solidarity Gives Rise to the Equality Generation" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2013.

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• Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

  Leon Panetta

  Attitude, Thinking, Today

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• Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected.

  Grover Norquist

  Insulting, President, Ceilings

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• I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising.

  Benjamin Day

  Subsidies, Advertising, Affiliation

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• After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Blue, White, House

  Dee Dee Myers (2009). “Why Women Should Rule the World”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Country, Brother, Party

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• One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Long Ago, Play

  FaceBook post by Rush Limbaugh from Nov 20, 2013

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• This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.

  Brad Henry

  Usual, Oklahomans, Firsts

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• I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Life Is Short, Trying

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• That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected. He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Law, Justice, Political

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• A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on himself, but on others, the pretext of his attack. He thus engages the world as a partisan in his quarrel, and dignifies his private hate, by giving it the air of disinterested resentment.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hate, Air, Giving

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.59

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• There's never a perfect bipartisan bill in the eyes of a partisan.

  William J. Clinton

  Eye, Perfect, Bills

  "Barack Houdini Obama". www.economist.com. December 16, 2010.

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• Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.

  James Anthony Froude

  Mother, Nature, Children

  James Anthony Froude (2011). “Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

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• Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration. They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Race, Issues

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.

  David Shuster

  Fox News, Foxes, Doe

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• I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders and our banquets.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Strong, Believe, Food

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• In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Jobs, Bombshells, Sand

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• I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Girl, Fighting, Littles

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Passion, Men, Battle

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• We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.

  Michael Dean Crapo

  People, Goal, Looks

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• Today in America we are no more "post-racial" than we are "post-partisan." We have a long way to go.

  Jennifer Granholm

  America, Long, Today

  "Race in America: We Are No More 'Post-Racial' Than We Are 'Post-Partisan'" by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2012.

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• We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Party, Ruins, Gains

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee an angry electorate four more years of gridlock.

  Ron Fournier

  Lying, Years, Negativity

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• Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

  Daniel Okrent

  Mind, Substance, Ears

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