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Partisan politics has no place in the classroom. -- Juan Cole
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
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
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
To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly. -- Rudy Giuliani
What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell. -- Newt Gingrich
In Washington, when you're a leader, you have to put aside partisan politics to do what's right for the people. -- George Pataki
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
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
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
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
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
At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy. -- Bernie Sanders
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. -- Zell Miller
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
My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics. -- Jack Kemp
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
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
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
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
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
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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