Partisans Quotes - Page 5

• The road ahead may be difficult for all Australians, but we need not be divided on partisan lines.

  Tony Whitlam

  Memorable, Needs, Lines

  "Gough Whitlam memorial service: Noel Pearson pays tribute to 'old man's legacy' - as it happened" by Bridie Jabour, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2014.

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• Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Responsibility, Climate, Pay

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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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• Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or a tragedian plays for tears. Theirs is a new art form, exclusive to America and bewilderingly successful. In place of traditional conservative ideology, they offer their audience partisan belligerence and a complete package of mail-order hatreds, designed for the conceptually and ethically impaired.

  Hal Crowther

  Art, Successful, Order

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• If fake news that's being released by some foreign government is almost identical to reports that are being issued through partisan news venues, then it's not surprising that that foreign propaganda will have a greater effect, because it doesn't seem that far-fetched compared to some of the other stuff that folks are hearing from domestic propagandists.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Fake, News

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the many, if examined sufficiently in detail, leads to even more ridiculous results than the hypothesis of the One.

  Zeno of Elea

  Writing, Views, Details

  "A History of Philosophy". Book by Frederick Charles Copleston, Volume 1: "Greece and Rome From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus", 1953.

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• Public service does not necessarily mean service in the House of Commons, and public service is not synonymous with partisan political activity. It comes in a thousand colours, but the common denominator is: it's not about me - it's about we.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Mean, House, Political

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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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• I hope that this [hacking] does not continue to be viewed purely through a partisan lens.I think there are Republicans as well as Democrats who are concerned about this.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Lenses, Hacking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.

  William Rainey Harper

  Patriotism, Genuine

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• It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.

  Tom DeLay

  Self, Political, Principles

  Farewell Address to House of Representatives, delivered 8 June 2006

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• Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sex, Political, Vacuums

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• I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

  William Harvey

  William Harvey, Robert Willis (1847). “The Works of William Harvey ...”, p.7

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• Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, todays Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

  Zell Miller

  Marine, America, Leader

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Humor, Names

  "President Bush Outlines Educational Initiatives". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. April 12, 2001.

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• To the extent that our political dialogue is such where everything is under suspicion, everybody is corrupt and everybody is doing things for partisan reasons, and all of our institutions are full of malevolent actors - if that's the storyline that's being put out there by whatever party is out of power, then when a foreign government introduces that same argument with facts that are made up, voters who have been listening to that stuff for years, who have been getting that stuff every day from talk radio or other venues, they're going to believe it.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Believe, Government

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• It does look like it's almost like South Africa to this extent: You have a white - what's the word - feeble minority. It's losing its majority status. And it says, the Republican Party, 'We can only get so many white votes. So, we got to reduce the votes of others.' It does look that way. Only the - maybe you're non-partisan, but only Republicans have pushed this in these 31 states. No Democratic legislature. You gotta look at the pattern here. You talk about profiling. I'm sorry, Republicans do this stuff.

  Chris Matthews

  Sorry, Party, White

  "The Top 20 Worst Chris Matthews Quotes Calling Obama Critics Racist" by Geoffrey Dickens, www.newsbusters.org. November 7, 2013.

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• President Obama has appointed a transgender woman to a position in the Department of Commerce. You know, in this era of partisan bickering, President Obama deserves a lot of credit for taking a chance on Ann Coulter, I think.

  Conan O'Brien

  Thinking, President, Credit

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• At what point do [progressives] take off our partisan blinders and start wondering whether a very powerful faction of Democrats actually continues to SUPPORT President Bush and the War in Iraq?

  David Sirota

  Powerful, War, Iraq

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• First, we must continually reaffirm the principle that the security of the United States is not, and should never be, a partisan matter. The United States can best defend its national security interests abroad by uniting behind a bipartisan security policy at home.

  William Cohen

  Home, Principles, United States

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• This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Issues, Tears

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• The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.

  Grover Cleveland

  Appreciation, Government, People

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• This partisan decision by a packed GOP state Supreme Court takes away worker's rights to bargain for a safe place to work. It underscores the need to vote for me in Aug. 12th primary. As governor, I will call a special session of the Legislature on day one to restore workers' rights, health care and retirement.

  Chris Larson

  Retirement, Rights, Decision

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• [Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.

  Liza Mundy

  Family, Leadership, Education

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• All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Party, Important, Failing

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