If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.
I think people recognize that I'm not a partisan Republican that I'm someone who is moderate, and that my views are progressive.
The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.
We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.
We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.
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.
The Dalai Lama should not be partisan either, should remain above.
The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual political implication of a theory cannot be excluded as, in principle, irrelevant.
In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results.
We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president.
Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.
I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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.
Children's books are by nature partisan.
I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.
As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.
I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
First, we must continually reaffirm the principle that the security of the United States is not, and should never be, a partisan matter. The United States can best defend its national security interests abroad by uniting behind a bipartisan security policy at home.
No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.
