Partisans Quotes - Page 6

• I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

  David Price

  Needs, Congress, Capacity

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• I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

  Dan Rather

  Political, Caves, Literature

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• I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

  Jean Rostand

  Judging, Criticism, Praise

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Let me start by saying that I do not enjoy nor relish the partisan role of attack dog. I never found any fun in that. I don't think it's constructive. I don't intend to become that here in the Senate.

  Marco Rubio

  Dog, Fun, Thinking

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• We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.

  Paul Ryan

  Rhetoric, Solutions, Bipartisan

  "CNN Newsroom" with Brooke Baldwin, www.cnn.com. April 13, 2011.

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• When you have strong views about how to approach thinking about the law, then that view is going to lead to certain results in certain situations. And so people seem to think this predictability is based on some kind of partisan political view. But it's not.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Strong, Thinking, Views

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• No partisan political activity transpired in my office during the recount period.

  Katherine Harris

  Office, Political, Periods

  "Pro-Bush Files in Florida System". www.wired.com. August 08, 2001.

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• A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Party, Healthy, Unity

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• What is it with conservatives? Seriously, I'm not trying to be partisan but it seems like if they're anti-illegal alien, they have illegal aliens working for them. If they're anti-gay, they turn out to be gay. If they're super Christian, they're a witch.

  Bill Maher

  Christian, Gay, Trying

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• The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual political implication of a theory cannot be excluded as, in principle, irrelevant.

  Raymond Geuss

  Taken, Political, Principles

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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• I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas.

  Wendy Davis

  Running, Thinking, Texas

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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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• Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.

  Ed Gillespie

  Running, Party, Years

  Interview with PBS, www.pbs.org.

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• Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.

  Paula Vogel

  Impossible, Theater, Conversation

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• What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game.

  John Avlon

  Country, Reality, Self

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• There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things..... Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Leadership, Party, Passion

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• He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.

  William Hazlitt

  Faithful, Principles, Partisanship

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.272

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• Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.

  Tony Campolo

  Party, Republican, Claims

  "The Surprising Evangelical Support for Newt Gingrich" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2012.

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• I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  Writing, Thinking, Curious

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• When a big event happens, people turn on to CNN, not only because they know there will be people there covering an event on the ground, but because they know we're going to cover it in a way that's non-partisan, that's not left or right.

  Anderson Cooper

  Cnn, People, Events

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

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• I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics, or not in that partisan way.

  Nick Clegg

  Dream, Thinking, People

  The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. March 11, 2010.

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• I think that there was a lot of undisclosed money that came into South Dakota, driving a message to paint me as a Washington partisan, which I don't believe that I am, but it was a message that resonated, after pounding it away for a number of weeks.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Believe, Thinking, Numbers

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• I voted against the climate-change legislation. Not that I don't believe we should move to a clean-energy economy, and it can be good for South Dakota's economy to do so, but it was started out as a very partisan bill in the committee.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Moving, Believe, Bills

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• Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

  John McCain

  United States, Defense, Boxers

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. October 18, 2010.

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• Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Attachment, Political, Perception

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