Partisan Politics Quotes

• What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell.

  Newt Gingrich

  Book, Needs, Helping

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• Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

  George Washington

  Party, Spirit, Voting Founding Fathers

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.7

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• To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Thinking, Permit, Partisans

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• The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

  George Washington

  Country, Revenge, Party

  United States. President, George Washington, United States (1825). “The speeches, addresses and messages, of the several presidents of the United States, at the openings of Congress and at their respective inaugurations: Also, the Declaration of independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's farewell address to his fellow-citizens”, p.104

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• First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.

  John Avlon

  Party, Thinking, Independence

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• 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.

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Life Is Short, Trying

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• What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

  Rahm Emanuel

  America, Comforting, Mind

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• Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, todays 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.

  Zell Miller

  Marine, America, Leader

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

  Juan Cole

  Classroom, Partisans

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• Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Country, Brother, Party

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• Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Vacuums, Culture, Oratory

  984 Speech at the American University, Washington DC. Quoted in Time magazine, 18 Jun.

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• 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.

  Pat Roberts

  War, Hands, Realizing

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• Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

  Leon Panetta

  Attitude, Thinking, Today

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• I'm very struck by what you can do in a classroom. I've got 200 students. You don't do partisan politics in a classroom, that's not appropriate. But you want to give them a strong sense that these are the issues that matter.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Strong, Issues, Giving

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Rights, Community, Next Steps

  "Immigration Battle". "FRONTLINE", www.pbs.org. October 20, 2015.

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• It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about running down America. Anti-Americanism - a stand-in for hatred of Western civilization - became the stuff of sophisticates and intellectuals as never before. Flag burners became the truest "patriots" because dissent - not just from partisan politics, but the American project itself - became the highest virtue.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Running, Patriotic, America

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.197, Crown Forum

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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, Partisans

  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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• I'm not questioning that Donald Trump won the election. But there's nothing more sacred than our democratic process in the United States. And we have got to make sure that - put aside partisan politics and make sure that we're getting to the bottom of all of this.

  Claire McCaskill

  United States, Sacred, Election

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I like Obama, but I understand that his hands are tied, the way Congress is reacting. It's just partisan politics everywhere, and don't know how we going to get things done in the future without compromising a little bit.

  Ice Cube

  Hands, Done, Littles

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Long Ago, Play

  FaceBook post by Rush Limbaugh from Nov 20, 2013

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• I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do not think they ought to make partisan politics out of appointments to the Cabinet.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Ferrell, Calvin Coolidge, Robert H. Ferrell, Howard H. Quint (1979). “TALKATIVE PRESIDENT OFF”, Dissertations-G

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• Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sex, Political, Vacuums

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