Partisan Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (P) Quotes

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

(That, in part, is why the Constitution`s framers gave justices life tenure - to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens , his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected.) He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.

- Gerald Ford

(That, in part, is why the Constitution`s framers gave justices life tenure '” to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected.) He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.

- Gerald Ford

Common Cause has made itself the handmaiden of a partisan political initiative,

- Jim Wright

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

invites a question: Can a partisan elected official fairly and impartially handle these kinds of election-related violations, ethics violations?

- Rich Robinson

I am extremely disappointed that (the president) has proposed this relief using such a politically charged approach. This is not time for a partisan political debate on vouchers.

- Ted Kennedy

.Surely we would not be a part of any protest that had a partisan or political approach to it,

- Danny Roberts

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

It concerned many of us at Oracle that Harris would consider challenging Senator Allen, considering the great things he`s done. We don`t think tech issues are partisan issues at all. We as an industry should support our friends and stand by them.

- Robert Hoffman

I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

- Laurent Fabius

Just last week, I was successful in passing two bi-partisan amendments through the House of Representatives that aim to address the even larger problem of cracking down on countries who export the materials to create meth into the United States.

- Mark Kennedy

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

Even as a partisan Republican, I`m not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.

- Ed Gillespie

We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children.

- Gordon Smith

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

- William Harvey

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

- John Bright

I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

- Oriana Fallaci

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.

- Adina Rosenbaum

The Archivist of the United States essentially works for the American people across partisan lines and not, regardless of which Administration nominates the person, for a particular President or political party.

- Ajay Nand

Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception.

- Al Mansell

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.

- Al Mansell

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.

- Alain Corre

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.

- Ali Aoun

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

- Allen Alley

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.

- Amanda Sluss

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.

- Amr Elnashai

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?

- Amy McFarland

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.

- Andrea Aumaitre

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.

- Andrew Suberu

It was supposed to be a nonpartisan race. It got to be partisan politics. You asked my opinion of it? I think it was done in bad taste.

- Anne Marie Thornton

(Copes` note says) it`s been a long time ... Republican Party apparatus . . . that becomes more organized, more belligerent, and more nakedly partisan by the day.

- Anne Rawson

Advertisers are usually strictly non-partisan and believe in the big tent policy, if not in politics then in consumerism.

- Arthur Agatston

a partisan Democrat who has done some really rotten political prosecuting.

- Astrid van Genderen Stort

China represents the best partisan foreign policy issue in the U.S. political system today, ... So a senator, a congressman, a politician can appear to be standing up for American interests and fighting communism by taking on China.

- Bafil Newmerzhycky