Partisans Quotes - Page 2

• Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

  Susan Bysiewicz

  People, Vote, Activity

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• Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a shared and better future.

  Jay Inslee

  Progress, Energy, Climate

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• But in his Farewell Address, George Washington made it clear that he perceived no greater threat to the American experiment than a partisan demagogue who 'agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against the other'

  John Avlon

  Farewell, Community, Alarms

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• Barack Obama won such a big electoral mandate because a lot of people thought he was - transcended partisan and ideological barriers and was going to put aside the old debates. So, he was able to get a lot of moderates and a lot of independents.

  David Brooks

  People, Able, Debate

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• The presidency has even become a partisan thing. The presidency has been totally politicized and totally made partisan, as evidenced by the IRS going after the Tea Party and any number of other examples I give you.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Numbers, Giving

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Dalai Lama should not be partisan either, should remain above.

  Dalai Lama

  Should, Lama, Dalai

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Our job should be like any other forensic scientist's - we should be truth seekers who are not partisan, who do not have any interest in the outcome, who call it as we see it no matter the consequences. But it seems a lot easier for chemists and anthropologists and pathologists to take that neutral role than it does for psychiatrists.

  Park Dietz

  Jobs, Outcomes, Matter

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If you have ever sat in a focus group in a swing state, you are 100% certain that most soft partisans make up their minds on who to vote for based on things that are totally outside of an understanding of issues.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Swings, Issues, Focus

  "The Fix Live". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 2016.

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• I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, People, Ruins

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• I went into the foreign service because I was interested in politics. But, in 1991, when I joined, I didn't see much of an opportunity to be involved in federal politics as a Conservative. We were at the tail end of the Brian Mulroney era. I wanted to do something non-partisan as a way of preparing for a role in our politics later.

  Chris Alexander

  Opportunity, Roles, Tails

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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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• No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.72, Vintage

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• Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

  Daniel Okrent

  Mind, Substance, Ears

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• We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Party, Ruins, Gains

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.

  Christine Gregoire

  Change, Legacy, Labels

  Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.

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• Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action on partisan or factional grounds, so that there shall be gradually a growth, even though a slow growth, in the knowledge that the Federal courts and the representatives of the Federal Department of Justice insist on meting out even-handed justice to all.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Government, Justice, Growth

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “1903-1905”

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• In the national security establishment, it is somewhat frowned upon for people to take extremely harsh partisan roles in campaigns.

  John Heilemann

  People, Campaigns, Roles

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• National security advisors are not there to be advocates, generally. They`re not there to be partisans, they`re not there to be ideologues.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Ideologues, Advisors, National Security

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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

  John Avlon

  Party, Media, Two

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• We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president.

  William J. Clinton

  America, President, Firsts

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Was that Donna Brazile, a CNN analyst, or a [Hillary] Clinton partisan? Two batches of emails posted by WikiLeaks show Brazile gave Clinton advisers a heads up about questions the candidate might receive at CNN events during the primaries.

  Donna Brazile

  Two, Cnn, Email

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The letter writers span the spectrum from left to right. Members say they don't want this to become a partisan political issue. In fact, there are reasons administration officials have been cautious in making a genocide declaration.

  Tom Gjelten

  Issues, Political, Facts

  "As Christians Flee, Governments Pressured To Declare ISIS Guilty Of Genocide". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 24, 2015.

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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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• 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.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Party, People, Challenges

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• In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Passion, Men, Battle

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