Top 464 Partisan Quotes & Sayings

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

Senator Schumer is a partisan.

The real problem with big issues like Medicare is that both parties have to be brave at the same time. Every pollster will tell you not to do that to get partisan advantage. Too many people here are willing to deliberately harm the country for partisan gain. That is borderline treason.

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

A critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the wheels don't start falling off. The way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don't let up. If you're always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong. Anyone who questions the legality of the decision to wiretap thousands of Americans unlawfully is attacked, as either an enabler of terrorists or a bitter partisan trying to distract a president at war.

I am basically a supporter of Barack Obama - it is not easy to be a post-partisan president in a hyper-partisan era.

Protecting our democracy shouldn't be a partisan issue.

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.

Making people's lives better is not a partisan issue.

Caring for veterans shouldn't be a partisan issue. It should an American one.

Most of our technology issues aren't partisan.

I loved September 12th. I loved the way - it's awful but, boy, did I love that day when we all came together. All the bickering stopped. All the partisan, cheap partisan warfare stopped.

No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.

The Supreme Court must never be viewed as a partisan institution.

Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.

The actual assertion that the Census Bureau could behave in such a way as to tilt things one way or the other way in the partisan sense, is, on the face of it, a silly charge. It's the same Census Bureau that's considered to be incompetent by some people, and then some of the same people are saying that this incompetent agency is so clever and so Machiavellian that it can design a census for partisan reasons.

I have never been political in a partisan sense.

Caring for veterans shouldn’t be a partisan issue. It should an American one.

When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

When activists say we need to move past the partisan divide, what they mean is: Shut up and get with my program. Have you ever heard anyone say, "We need to get past all of this partisan squabbling and name-calling. That's why I'm going to abandon all my objections and agree with you"?

I think that non-partisan primaries would be great.

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.

I think there was a moment in the middle part of the century into the 60s, 70s when at least elite journalism claimed to be non-partisan. You can go back and look at it and wonder about how non-partisan it was.

The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

To call me a partisan hack is ludicrous. [...] I am the least partisan person I know.

I am totally pro-non-partisan elections.

Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration. They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.

The most depressing thing about blogging is watching so-called 'citizen journalists' turn in to little more than easily offended partisan hacks. Any remark that is slightly less than completely and totally scripted and can give the slightest opportunity to offend some delicate soul somewhere is used to set off a series of partisan screeches and cries of outrage that would make the Church Lady jealous.

America needs leader that work for them, not partisan gain.

I think Democrats do a lot to talk the talk and don't do a lot to walk the walk on wage gap. I think Democrats like to make this a partisan issue and it's really not a partisan issue. Republicans are for equal pay and obviously have been on the record saying as such, and somehow the Democrats have created a false narrative that we are not for equal pay when in fact there's no truth to that.

But I'm not a political partisan. I don't vote.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

I am not a rabid partisan.

There's no such thing as a partisan base.

We're all tired of a Washington that has these partisan camps where nothing gets done.

Our corrupt, partisan media are embarrassing.

We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.

I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising.

We don't go to war on narrow, partisan votes.

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

I have been accused of acting out of partisan political motives.

No partisan political activity transpired in my office during the recount period.

Disease is a non-partisan problems that requires a non-partisan solution.

Federal employees are public servants, not partisan foot soldiers for President Obama, and shouldn't have to decide whether a partisan White House request can be ignored without consequences.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

Election security isn't a partisan issue.

To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.

Politics has become absurdly, stupidly, restrictively partisan.

The first presidential veto, by George Washington, was a veto of Alexander Hamilton's formula for apportioning the House, and the one that Washington preferred was one that Thomas Jefferson produced, and that was one partisan issue. The apportionment formula that Jefferson produced gave an extra seat to Virginia. Everybody knew what that game was. Look, partisan interest in the census is simply nothing new.

He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.

Our national security is not a partisan issue.

Children's books are by nature partisan.

Partisan politics is not my passion.

There's never a perfect bipartisan bill in the eyes of a partisan.

The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.

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.

Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.

I'm not a partisan.

I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.