Top 121 Partisanship Quotes & Sayings

When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue.

Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.

Unanimity is important because it signals that the justices can rise above their differences and interpret the law without partisanship.

It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process.

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.

The cause of peace is too great for us to allow political disagreements or partisanship to stand in our way.

The best defense against partisanship is expertise.

Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.

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.

We must have courage to set partisanship aside and embrace the best ideas and solutions no matter which side of the aisle they come from.

I think partisanship is probably the greatest problem in Washington, D.C.

Let's fix our roads, and be the state that's not paralyzed by partisanship, but works together. And create the blueprint for rebuilding America's crumbling infrastructure.

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.

Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

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.

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.

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.

Partisanship should have no role in the vital U.S.-Israel relationship.

When elected officials and others contribute to a climate and culture that fosters hyper-partisanship, we've got to blow the whistle.

Logic, fact, morality, legality, ideology: All of it is irrelevant in understanding the Party of Trump. Republicans have made crystal clear that nothing matters to them other than partisanship.

Partisanship must end at the waters edge.

Feminism has nothing to do with partisanship.

Partisanship is not part of my professional makeup.

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

When Kansas and Missouri work together, we can accomplish a lot - and also set an example at a time of extreme partisanship.

If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

Partisanship may be King in Washington - but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute.

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.

I, for one, believe that partisanship should have nothing to do with the actions of Christ. You're either Christlike, or you're not.

It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.

[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

Partisanship is nothing new. I grew up in a household where appliances that broke had 'gone Democrat.'

Of course I am partisan in my politics, but my partisanship is rational - which, in my book, is not necessarily oxymoronic.

The question of impeaching Donald Trump is about replacing the toxic partisanship of today's Republican party with America's traditional rule of law. It has become a constitutional imperative.

Though I am probably guilty of indulging in excessive tribalism myself at times, I try to put partisanship to one side where appropriate.

Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.

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.

America is a strong and resilient country. And I know we will succeed, if we put aside partisanship and politics and work together as one nation.

Obama offers himself as a catalyst by which disenchanted Americans can overcome two decades of vicious partisanship, energize our democracy, and restore faith in government.

Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn't have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.

You can't have the legislative and executive branch working in a parallel universe...the partisanship that has gripped Washington has prevented us from dealing with the issues that this country needs to grapple with to determine its future.

It's time for political leaders across the ideological spectrum to realize that, while partisanship is understandable, hyper-partisanship is destructive to our country. We need more visionary leaders who will earnestly strive for bipartisanship and finding policy solutions that can move America forward.

If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment's hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted.

You should govern not by partisanship, but by leadership.

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals, and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

American Psalms challenges Christian patriots to put aside personal agendas, prejudices and partisanship, and pray for our leaders as God commands.

I hope America manages to steer itself away from partisanship and back to patriotism; we are all Americans. And as long as I can make people laugh and feel better, I'm happy.

We can bring people together in an era rife with partisanship and divide.

You've heard me question whether the partisanship in Washington has made us, as a nation, ungovernable - and, indeed, Democrats are doing their very best to make sure of it.

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.

Our obligation to the people we serve is too important to place politics and partisanship before progress and results.

We can't allow ourselves to descend down the rabbit hole of unbridled partisanship for partisan sake.

I've had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress.

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

Political paralysis and partisanship are sabotaging American power.

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.

Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.

Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.