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Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other. -- James Harvey Robinson
Partisanship may be King in Washington - but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute. -- Michael Bloomberg
Partisanship must end at the waters edge. -- Harry S. Truman
Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan. -- Norman Lear
One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism. -- John Avlon
Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now. -- Leslie Moonves
If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction. -- Jennifer Granholm
Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s. -- Thomas E. Mann
Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions. -- Paul Ryan
I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved. -- Walter Isaacson
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship. -- Robert Byrd
We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy. -- Evgeny Morozov
The best defense against partisanship is expertise. -- Roger Angell
It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos. -- George Washington
Let's face it, Fox News, you'll miss me when I'm gone. It'll be harder to convince the public that Hillary Clinton was born in Kenya. -- Barack Obama
The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment. -- Ted Cruz
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
In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art. -- Wassily Kandinsky
When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward. -- William J. Clinton
I know CNN has taken some knocks lately but the fact is, I admire their commitment to covering all sides of the story, just in case one of them happens to be accurate. -- Barack Obama
Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave. -- Simon Bolivar
The great issues facing us today are not Republican issues or Democratic issues. The political parties can debate the means, but both parties must embrace the end objective, which is to make America great again. -- Lee Iacocca
Recently in Washington, unfortunately, we have seen examples of the wrong kind of leadership -- when politicians choose scorched earth over common ground, when they operate in what I call the 'evidence-free zone,' with ideology trumping everything else. -- Hillary Clinton
I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town couldn't do anything about it was stunning to me. -- Barack Obama
Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism. -- Cory Booker
We can't allow ourselves to descend down the rabbit hole of unbridled partisanship for partisan sake. -- Mike Quigley
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself. -- Thomas Frank
I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution. -- Robert Byrd
President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship. -- William J. Clinton
In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship. -- Cory Booker
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. -- Michael Crapo
The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness. -- Jon Meacham
The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy. -- Michael Bloomberg
In recurring episodes over the next couple of decades, the minority view gradually won. A profusion of factors differentiates each case from the others, including naked partisanship on both sides, but the trend has been clear. -- Michael Kinsley
Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind. -- Malcolm Turnbull
The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
C. Everett 'Chic' Koop became U.S. Surgeon General under President Reagan. He was a world renowned pediatric surgeon who had a tumultuous Senate confirmation process due to partisanship. Chic took office in January 1982, a time of 'tobacco wars' and a new and evolving terrifying disease that we ultimately came to know as AIDS. -- Richard Carmona
Feminism has nothing to do with partisanship. -- Ronee Blakley
It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process. -- David Souter
It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue. -- Al Gore
We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship. -- Grover Norquist
When elected officials and others contribute to a climate and culture that fosters hyper-partisanship, we've got to blow the whistle. -- Mark McKinnon
American Psalms challenges Christian patriots to put aside personal agendas, prejudices and partisanship, and pray for our leaders as God commands. -- Mike Huckabee
Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it. -- Steven Soderbergh
What makes this mentality dangerous is that when the team is held together by careerism and mindless partisanship, individual members are punished for thinking for themselves. -- Tom Coburn
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. -- Michael Crapo
[The decision to travel to Washington and deliver the speech] has injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think it's destructive of the fabric of the relationship -- Benjamin Netanyahu
It seems very obvious that a vast majority of the American people are sick and tired of political correctness and prevailing partisanship that does not serve the American people or freedom well. -- James Robison
Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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