Famous Quotes & Sayings

With no institutional defender, independent counsels are especially vulnerable to partisan attack,

Elliott Abrams

Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both good politics and good policy.

What the Senate did today is choose partisan politics over the people and the senior citizens.

Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a curve. The more you know, the more likely you are to vote in an ideologically consistent way, not just following your party but following a set of constraints dictated by a political ideology.

Mike Huckabee

If we faced issues that required little more than a few turns with a Phillips screwdriver, then we perhaps could afford the luxury of political gamesmanship and the personal pleasures of some old-fashioned partisan political towel popping.

Paul Martin

When I established this inquiry, I didn't know what its investigation would uncover. But I knew that our country needed a full, fair and independent determination of the facts - not hearsay, not partisan allegations, but the facts. And that's what this report has delivered.

Thomas E. Mann

The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized.

We need a senator who will ask the right questions in the run-up to any conflict and not simply serve as a partisan cheerleader for whoever happens to be sitting in the White House.

If you are going to run for partisan office, particularly if it is full time, at some point you have to leave government employment, ... This gives him some breathing room, but it doesn't get him off the hook. At some point, he will have to take a leave or resign.

Howard Dean

If the governor were serious about ridding his administration of partisan patronage, he never would have pardoned them in the first place and would have cooperated with the Attorney Generals investigation,

Eric Burns

He's certainly coming in at the deep end in one of the most partisan committees in the House.

Helping our cause is a Republican Party that saw the results from the last election and decided that their candidates were not partisan or divisive enough, even though their standard-bearer ran a campaign focused tightly on the GOP base.

Wes Boyd

If they do air a partisan film, we'll challenge the FCC and the licenses of the local stations that broadcast the film because local stations have a responsibility to the community to air real news, not partisan messages,

Eric Williams

If they're going to want to speak in a partisan way, fine. But don't do it as a church.

Orrin Hatch

If they want to vote against him, you know darn well they're captives of these ... very liberal outside groups ... and they're demanding they vote against him even though they don't have one good reason to, ... I really don't believe that's the case but if that happens, then you can see why we're in such a partisan gridlock here in Washington, because the Democrats can't even support someone this good.

Bill Richardson

I did not utter one partisan word in that committee.

Paul Ryan

What we don't have is a willingness for any Democrat to work with a Republican -- that's the biggest problem right now. It's too big of a partisan issue for Democrats to cooperate on, and that's been our biggest problem. We don't need a commission to tell us that.

have taken this tragic case and used it for their own partisan purposes.

I am very reluctant to see internal stuff revealed except where there is some clear public reason for doing so, ... No one seriously thinks that Roberts is a raving lunatic, and as a pragmatic matter he is simply not going to be defeated. So neither on public nor partisan grounds do I think that my presumption of confidentiality is overcome.

Thomas Mann

Bush's partisan style of governance has reinforced it.

William Galston

Bush is the most partisan president in modern American history. As a result, voters in both parties are focusing on him, rather than on the specifics of the policies.

China represents the best partisan foreign policy issue in the U.S. political system today, ... So a senator, a congressman, a politician can appear to be standing up for American interests and fighting communism by taking on China.

I feel very strongly as a partisan Democrat that this will be a major issue in the 2006 election.

Sharan Burrow

Such reckless and partisan intervention in domestic policy debates outside the fund's areas of core expertise can only damage the IMF,

.Surely we would not be a part of any protest that had a partisan or political approach to it,

I think it is true that this is the earliest in an election year that we've seen so much use of churches and religion for partisan purposes in states like Ohio, Texas, Alabama, Pennsylvania.

Tony Perkins

It appears that partisan stalling tactics have triumphed over a fair and timely confirmation process.

Robert Hoffman

It concerned many of us at Oracle that Harris would consider challenging Senator Allen, considering the great things he's done. We don't think tech issues are partisan issues at all. We as an industry should support our friends and stand by them.

It is clear that we need a new chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission immediately. Sen. Lott is disappointed that Mary Sheila Gall, who is a clearly a qualified candidate, has not been confirmed by the Senate due to personal partisan attacks.

John W. Snow

I think we need to rise above partisan politics on this one,

I WAS THERE because I'm supporting Jeff. We have been friends for 15 years. County clerk is an administrative office, not a partisan one.

Arlen Specter

It has been apparent for some time that the American people are frustrated, sick and tired of the partisan bickering. We have to support the president.

Ralph Goodale

It is not about tax breaks for the wealthy. With the greatest respect, partisan sloganeering, to that effect, really insults the intelligence of Canadians.