Partisan Quotes

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.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.

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.

When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

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.

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.

I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

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

We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

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

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

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

Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

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

There's no such thing as a partisan base.

Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).

Caring for veterans shouldn't be a partisan issue. It should an American one.

US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.

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

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.

In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results.

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

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.