Partisans Quotes - Page 7

• The Supreme Court nominations [example]. I mean, the fact that Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republicans, was able to just stop a nomination almost a year before the next election and really not pay a political price for it, that's a sign that the incentives for politicians in this town to be so sharply partisan have gotten so outta hand that we're weakening ourselves.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Years, Hands

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

  John Bright

  House, Facts, Poor

  John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

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• The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Middle, Discomfort

  Sydney J. Harris (1972). “For the Time Being”

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• Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-love/hate, let's say. In a way, this stepping outside, in an attempt to judge enough to create a duplicate of it, makes you an outsider. . . . I think it's healthy for a writer to feel like an outsider. If you feel like an insider you get committed to a partisan view, you begin to defend interests, so you wind up not really empathizing with all mankind.

  John Updike

  Hate, Home, Thinking

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• Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists.

  Enoch Powell

  Past, Men, Political

  John Enoch Powell, John Wood (1970). “Freedom and reality”, Arlington House Publishers

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• This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Bangs, Election, Desperate

  "The great campaign of 2010". www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2010.

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• I'm fighting for real change, not just partisan change where everybody else gets rich but you. I'm fighting all of us across the country are fighting for peaceful regime change in our own country. The media donor political complex that's bled this country dry has to be replaced with a new government of, by, and for the people.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Real, Fighting

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In Washington, when you’re a leader, you have to put aside partisan politics to do what’s right for the people.

  George Pataki

  People, Leader, Partisan Politics

  George Pataki at Republican Presidential Debate at University of Colorado's Coors Events Center in Boulder, Colorado, time.com. October 28, 2015.

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• The amount of interaction, the amount of understanding that exists in your generation among people of different races and different creeds and different colors is unprecedented. And by the way, that goes - that cuts across party lines, that cuts across partisan lines.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Cutting, Race

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• To call me a partisan hack is ludicrous. [...] I am the least partisan person I know.

  Tucker Carlson

  Call Me, Persons, Knows

  "State Of The Union With John King". Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz, transcripts.cnn.com. March 15, 2009.

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• The left think that this special place in the world, the United States of America, it just happened. It just is. And it's our responsibility, as those who are lucky and fortunate enough, to happen to have been born here. It is incumbent upon us to share that same luck and good fortune with everybody else. Otherwise we are mean, selfish, polarized, partisan, extremist, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, whatever.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Selfish, Mean, Responsibility

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The left defends their, whatever you want to call, partisans, activists or what have you.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Want, Activist, Left

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think this is a scary thing [hacking] that does have to be taken out of a partisan context. And one of the best pieces of news this morning is a joint statement, Senator [Chuck] Schumer, Senator [Harry] Reid for the Democrats,John McCain and Lindsey Graham from the Republicans, saying we have to get to the bottom of this.

  E. J. Dionne

  Morning, Taken, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.

  Bainbridge Colby

  Country, Honor, Energy

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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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• Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.

  Jim Wallis

  Believe, People, Alternatives

  Jim Wallis (2009). “The Great Awakening: Seven Ways to Change the World”, p.12, Harper Collins

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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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• 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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• I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

  Laurent Fabius

  Government, Europe, Lessons

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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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• Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate. This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both.

  Mark Helprin

  War, Thinking, Government

  Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power.

  Stephen King

  Falling In Love, Book, Responsibility

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• The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans and empty quacks.

  William James

  War, Party, Writing

  "Essays in Religion and Morality".

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