Partisans Quotes - Page 6

• Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness, and truth in politicians than in partisan preachers. They are not replied to - no chance to reply to them.... The balance wheel of free institutions is free discussion. The pulpit allows no free discussion.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Religion, Balance, Wheels

  "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes". Book by Rutherford B. Hayes, 1922 - 1926.

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• The first presidential veto, by George Washington, was a veto of Alexander Hamilton's formula for apportioning the House, and the one that Washington preferred was one that Thomas Jefferson produced, and that was one partisan issue. The apportionment formula that Jefferson produced gave an extra seat to Virginia. Everybody knew what that game was. Look, partisan interest in the census is simply nothing new.

  Kenneth Prewitt

  Virginia, Games, Issues

  "Census, Uncensored". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. June 26, 2009.

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• I was confident that it [would] not in any way affect my ability to be impartial, objective and non-partisan.

  Calvin Cheng

  Way, Ability, Objectives

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• If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rain, Eye, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• There are all kinds of different forms of public service, but there's no form of public service that can make more difference for more people than partisan political activity.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Differences, People, Political

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• One must believe neither the people of the palace, who ordinarily measure the power of the king by the shape of his crown, which, being round, has no end, nor those who, in the excesses of an indiscreet zeal, proclaim themselves openly as partisans of Rome.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Kings, Believe, Rome

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• Confronting the US made him [Hugo Chavez] a target for demonization. Partisan and/or lazy journalism exaggerated his faults, ignored his virtues, and downplayed the influence of strident and on occasion anti-democratic opponents. The flip side is his anti-imperialist posturing so dazzled his cheerleaders they overlooked his flaws, flaws which worsened over time, and they created their own caricature.

  Rory Carroll

  Lazy, Target, Opponents

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• We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children.

  Gordon Smith

  Retirement, Children, Opportunity

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• There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

  Michael Lewis

  Art, Views, Identity

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• Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Loyalty, Opponents, Causes

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• We need to review the process for the election of Speaker. We've got to reform Question Time, which is really a waste of time. There are so many things that we need to do to reform our Parliament and I think it's bigger than that. It's all about the sort of leadership that people are getting at the moment. They're fed up with this sorta day-to-day bickering, not putting the national interest ahead of these narrow partisan interests.

  Richard Di Natale

  Thinking, People, Waste

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.

  Tom Allen

  Thinking, Data, Media

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• I think it's fine that there are five million people who are watching [politics on TV], and obviously I'm happy they are since they're on the air, and there are a couple hundred thousand people reading The Weekly Standard online, and that's great too, but most Americans aren't engaged that intensely, and are much less partisan.

  William Kristol

  Couple, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• People read the Tribune or the Sun-Times, you know, way back when the Tribune was a right-wing paper.It's always been somewhat that way. We take 10, 20 years in the 50s and 60s as kind of the norm, when there was this sort of bi-partisan parent consensus.

  William Kristol

  Years, Wings, People

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• I think there was a moment in the middle part of the century into the 60s, 70s when at least elite journalism claimed to be non-partisan. You can go back and look at it and wonder about how non-partisan it was.

  William Kristol

  Thinking, Looks, Journalism

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being called a gay Republican when I never attached myself to that.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Gay, Frustrated, Republican

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.

  James Wolcott

  Fun, Reflection, Class

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• [Donna] Brazil warned the campaign that [Hillary] Clinton might face a question over lead poisoning during a CNN primary debate, showing her partisan ties.

  Donna Brazile

  Cnn, Ties, Campaigns

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It will be an unusual dynamic [in Congress]. It won't be like the rallying behind President [Barack] Obama in 2009 or behind President [George W.] Bush, even at the beginning of his presidency, or even [Bill] Clinton in '93, when he got his budget through on a partisan vote.

  William Kristol

  President, Bills, Vote

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The best way to reduce emissions and pollution is not through partisan political theater but through developing consensus on areas that will bring about effectual change.

  Richard Burr

  Political, Way, Pollution

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [Michael Flynn is not] the kind of person who is going to be more buttoned-up kind of military figure and that partisan tone.

  John Heilemann

  Military, Tone, Kind

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.

  Barack Obama

  Russia, Political, Vulnerable

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I'm not questioning that Donald Trump won the election. But there's nothing more sacred than our democratic process in the United States. And we have got to make sure that - put aside partisan politics and make sure that we're getting to the bottom of all of this.

  Claire McCaskill

  United States, Sacred, Election

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.

  J. G. Ballard

  War, Fighting, Film

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• I became a lightning rod for some partisan battles. I could not be prouder of the track record we've put together. By almost every measure, the country is significantly better off than when I came in.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Track, Battle

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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