Partisan Quotations

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.

I went to Washington several times at the request of different parties to talk about education reform. I used to always say I felt like I needed to take a shower after I left, because it was so partisan that I just really hated it.

I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.

I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.

I don't know that I 'look up' to them, but in our predictably partisan media world, I admire journalists who are genuinely nonpartisan and totally fearless in their work - people who have no interest in being invited to the cocktail party. I don't agree with everything he writes, but Glenn Greenwald comes to mind.

Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception.

Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature.

He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

We can't allow ourselves to descend down the rabbit hole of unbridled partisanship for partisan sake.

As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.

Many of us, both Jews and Christians, want the public square to be pluralistic, which is neither partisan nor naked.

Keeping children alive and free of disease is not a political issue and cannot be put into a partisan box.

I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.

There's only one way we're going to change our political climate and ensure we establish some respect in our discourse. And that is to show there is a real price to pay for being a disrespectful partisan idiot.

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.

The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful.

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.

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

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

We have received thousands of e-mails, people outraged by the very idea a company like Sinclair would direct stations to air a partisan film.

We have so many huge problems, and it is frustrating to somebody like myself when we are reduced to partisan fire with bazookas,

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.

This proposal is clearly not a partisan issue.

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.

Making government more efficient and more effective need not be a partisan issue.

made a good-faith effort to respond to the questions despite the fact that they were designed more for a partisan purpose than a constitutional one.

Let's take the time to clear the air of loathsome partisan rhetoric.

Senator McCain is the very role model of an independent voice who is willing to speak out against the partisan nonsense that happens in the nation's capital.

She has an aptitude for being able to sell a partisan agenda beyond its partisan audience.

More independents, in particular, say partisan control will be a factor.

My hope is he will take himself out of the partisan cast and see himself as the standard bearer for civil rights and civil liberties because that is what the Justice Department is supposed to do,

Now you have heard the managers' vision ... But I believe their vision to be too dark... I believe it to be a vision more focused on retribution, more designed to achieve partisan ends, ... Our vision, I think, is quite different, but it is not naive. We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country.

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.

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.

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,

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

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.

I did not utter one partisan word in that committee.

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.

Bush's partisan style of governance has reinforced it.

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.

For too long Tom DeLay has been the subject of a partisan witch hunt by Ronnie Earle and the media that has ultimately led to a distorted public image of assumed guilt.

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.

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,

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.

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.

Karl Rove breached our national security for partisan gain and that is unpatriotic and wrong.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I want you to know that when we believe the president is on the right track, we won't let partisan interests get in the way of what's good for our country. But when he gets off track, we will be there to hold him accountable,

I think District 95 deserves to have a choice just like everybody else does. This Hatfield-McCoy, Democrat-Republican partisan politics, it ain't working for us. We've got to learn to get along and work together and get things done.

I think District 95 deserves to have a choice just like everybody else does. à This Hatfield-McCoy, Democrat-Republican partisan politics, it ain't working for us. We've got to learn to get along and work together and get things done.

Over the last number of years, the Legislature has been very dysfunctional and in partisan gridlock.

Our goal is to spread the risk out as far as possible across the nation. It's clearly not a partisan issue.

Remember that we're all Americans, ... We have a higher interest than our partisan interests -- the national interests.

Partisan party considerations and public funds and cost should not mix.

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

It depends who you talk to. There are people who are very upset about the president, ... But I have not felt that I want to make it a partisan issue in the campaign, so I have not had a lot of comment about it.

Judge Wright's dismissal of the suit against President Clinton should now be the final word on what has become an unprecedented partisan witch hunt of one of the most popular and successful presidents of the 20th century.

Most important to me is not having the process of honoring heroes turn into a partisan process. History is too important.

We just can't put up with it anymore. The partisan nonsense that is ruining our nation has to stop.

We do not feel changes need to be made in the PSC. Furthermore, we believe the position of attorney general should be elected in a non-partisan manner, just like Kentucky's judges, so that partisan politics do not overwhelm decision-making in thinly veiled attempts to advance careers.

We have a moral obligation to stand up and protect Social Security for the next 70 years and beyond -- that means stopping privatization and dropping partisan demands for private accounts,

We have always welcomed a regular dialogue with Congress. We agree that progress is being made by both the military and civilians in Iraq. The progress is extraordinary and should not be drowned out by partisan politics in Washington.

We need to stop the quibbling, the partisan games, and political brinkmanship to find a solution that saves and strengthens Social Security for the future.

Unionists will view her as being a partisan secretary of state ... and some of her actions will be viewed in a bad light,

This sale will create an unacceptable risk to the security of our ports. This issue transcends philosophical posturing and partisan bickering -- it is about our nation's security.

To me, this is not really and should not be a partisan question. I think it's a question of institutional pride of this body, of the Congress of the United States.

The real problem with big issues like Medicare is that both parties have to be brave at the same time. Every pollster will tell you not to do that to get partisan advantage. Too many people here are willing to deliberately harm the country for partisan gain. That is borderline treason.

There are a lot of myths about what the evidence is in this case, ... Some of them are misunderstandings based upon erroneous media reports, some spring from confusion in the evidence itself, and some are the result of concerted partisan distortion.

Udall has two attributes that we look for when we're thinking about what makes a seat much less competitive: He's a well established incumbent, and he has a strong partisan advantage.

To claim their goal is not partisan really stretches the imagination.

While I have worked hard to bring folks to the middle to craft common-sense solutions to the many problems that confront our nation, Washington is mired in gridlock, gamesmanship and constant partisan bickering.

The president should name the best-qualified and proven constitutionalist to replace O'Connor as soon as Judge Roberts is confirmed, regardless of sex, race or ethnicity. The American people will decide the consequences of partisan politicians trying to intimidate the president into surrendering his constitutional duty.

Extensive internal documentation on this project has been available to any member of Congress who wished to review it, ... Surprisingly, Ms. Pelosi chose not to do so before launching this partisan attack.

The governor must still convince independents and moderates that he is as he seemed to be last year ... a figure in Sacramento who stood for solutions and an end to partisan bickering, who put the people's interests first.

The government is vacillating because it is unable to find an agreement within the coalition for partisan reasons,

The defense of America should rise above partisan political concerns,

There is no room for partisan grandstanding on this matter, ... If wrongdoing is confirmed it ought to be dealt with in the appropriate way laid out by the rules of the House.

This was a program enacted as part of a very high-profile, partisan controversy, ... And the other thing is, the benefit is not what people had hoped to see.

This was a partisan steamrolling. I think we threw fairness out the window.

We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.

What that means, ... is when we are asked to provide intelligence on a particular topic, we do so without shading or shaping the information in any way. It is not a question of partisan support.

The public will see that partisan axes are being ground.

We don't think it's a partisan issue. A handful of people wanted to kill it for some reason, and the rest of democracy had to suffer.

Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.

As the news this morning of increased joblessness and earlier reports of exploding deficit and debt reveal, the president's economic policy is a disaster. Obviously, the secretary of the treasury and Mr. Lindsey are being sacrificed to protect the president. Sadly, the removal of these economic officials will do nothing if they are simply replaced with yes-men committed to the president's relentlessly partisan agenda of pushing tax cuts at the expense of all else.

Common Cause has made itself the handmaiden of a partisan political initiative,