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Partisan politics has no place in the classroom. -- Juan Cole
He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors. -- Randall Jarrell
I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization. -- Gwen Moore
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. -- Kevin Spacey
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. -- Terry Southern
I am not a rabid partisan. -- Joe Wilson
We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric. -- Paul Ryan
I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea. -- Joshua Chamberlain
Caring for veterans shouldn't be a partisan issue. It should an American one. -- Jennifer Granholm
At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy. -- Bernie Sanders
As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner. -- Gordon W. Allport
It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation. -- Colin Powell
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
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. -- Milan Kundera
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). -- Thomas E. Mann
Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect. -- Giorgio Napolitano
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. -- Mark McKinnon
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
This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first. -- Brad Henry
Let me start by saying that I do not enjoy nor relish the partisan role of attack dog. I never found any fun in that. I don't think it's constructive. I don't intend to become that here in the Senate. -- Marco Rubio
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
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. -- Walter Lippmann
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. -- Paul Sadler
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
In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions. -- Ray Stannard Baker
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. -- Thomas E. Mann
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. -- Jill Lepore
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. -- Willie Geist
I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America. -- Olympia Snowe
Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected. -- Grover Norquist
The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America. -- Chris Christie
I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair. -- Donald M. Payne
There's no such thing as a partisan base. -- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone. -- William Harvey
Registering people to vote is not partisan activity. -- Susan Bysiewicz
We don't go to war on narrow, partisan votes. -- Phil Bredesen
Disease is a non-partisan problems that requires a non-partisan solution. -- Michael J. Fox
No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial. -- William Rainey Harper
I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism. -- Oriana Fallaci
The Dalai Lama should not be partisan either, should remain above. -- Dalai Lama
American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds. -- Shane Smith
No partisan political activity transpired in my office during the recount period. -- Katherine Harris
There's never a perfect bipartisan bill in the eyes of a partisan. -- William J. Clinton
I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising. -- Benjamin Day
To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly. -- Rudy Giuliani
When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside. -- Amy Klobuchar
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The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes. -- Gil J Wolman
Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock. -- Ted Cruz
In my mind, there is no reason public school reform should be a partisan issue. -- Michael Bennet
My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics. -- Jack Kemp
A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare. -- Thomas E. Mann
We can't allow ourselves to descend down the rabbit hole of unbridled partisanship for partisan sake. -- Mike Quigley
As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner. -- Gordon W. Allport
Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party. -- Ed Gillespie
To call me a partisan hack is ludicrous. I am the least partisan person I know. -- Tucker Carlson
The media claimed to be non-partisan, centrist. It's not been that way for a lot of history. -- William Kristol
I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity. -- David Price
After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors. -- Christine Pelosi
He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan. -- William Hazlitt
I am partisan to some extent on the Democratic side, but I consider myself more of an independent. -- Jay Roach
The road ahead may be difficult for all Australians, but we need not be divided on partisan lines. -- Tony Whitlam
There`s no greater risk to the Israeli position in Washington than to make itself a partisan issue. -- Joy-Ann Reid
The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal. -- Confucius
Increasingly we're seeing these ultra-partisan sites getting larger and larger readerships because people are self-selecting themselves into communities. -- Edward Snowden
I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government. -- Laurent Fabius
I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces. -- Dan Rather
Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War. -- Adam Hochschild
I was confident that it [would] not in any way affect my ability to be impartial, objective and non-partisan. -- Calvin Cheng
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan. -- Jean Rostand
This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security. -- Henry A. Kissinger
In Washington, when you're a leader, you have to put aside partisan politics to do what's right for the people. -- George Pataki
Many of us, both Jews and Christians, want the public square to be pluralistic, which is neither partisan nor naked. -- David Novak
Today in America we are no more 'post-racial' than we are 'post-partisan.' We have a long way to go. -- Jennifer Granholm
As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan. -- Thomas Sowell
I'm a partisan, too. I'm in favor of AUTHENTICITY." US State Department veteran and U.N. refugee official Wendy Chamberlain -- Ron Suskind
In the national security establishment, it is somewhat frowned upon for people to take extremely harsh partisan roles in campaigns. -- John Heilemann
Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome. -- Thomas E. Mann
There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower. -- Michael Lewis
Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis. -- David Shuster
I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one. -- Breyten Breytenbach
In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results. -- Amy Klobuchar
I think people recognize that I'm not a partisan Republican that I'm someone who is moderate, and that my views are progressive . -- Mitt Romney
The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it. -- John Avlon
We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned. -- Michael Scheuer
The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress. -- Mitch McConnell
[Michael Flynn is not] the kind of person who is going to be more buttoned-up kind of military figure and that partisan tone. -- John Heilemann
We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse. -- Jon Meacham
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. -- Thomas E. Mann
[Donna] Brazil warned the campaign that [Hillary] Clinton might face a question over lead poisoning during a CNN primary debate, showing her partisan ties. -- Donna Brazile
The prospects of green economic opportunity is going to be determined to a great extent by politicians arriving at some sort of bi-partisan resolution. -- Van Jones
Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values. -- Tony Campolo
Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service. -- Grover Cleveland
My goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel. -- Alan Dershowitz
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
Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.' -- Tony Campolo
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
Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside. -- Jim DeMint
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
The best way to reduce emissions and pollution is not through partisan political theater but through developing consensus on areas that will bring about effectual change. -- Richard Burr
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
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
I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first. -- Ted Turner
It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children. -- George W. Bush
If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down in the mire of partisan gamesmanship. -- Chuck Hagel
This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends-not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution. -- Charles Krauthammer
Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion. -- David Price
There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms. -- Barbara Mikulski
The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobilized in over 30 states to stop it. These efforts are very partisan. -- John Lewis
Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Jared Diamond
The appointment of the next Supreme Court justice must be made in the people's interest and in the nation's interest, not in the interest of any partisan faction. -- Patrick Leahy
I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders and our banquets. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win. -- Jonathan Haidt
Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights. -- Donna Brazile
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
The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions. -- Socrates
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. -- Daniel Barenboim
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. -- Ben Edwards
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. -- Elliott Abrams

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