#artisans

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?' ↗

— Colin Powell

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Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy. ↗

— Reince Priebus

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I'd like to see that bipartisanship come back that we used to have in the House of Representatives, in the Clinton years. I think there's a possibility that the voters are going to send the message that everybody running - Congress, the Senate, the presidency - that they want us to come together. ↗

— Bill Richardson

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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

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I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship. ↗

— Stephanie Herseth

#compromise #consensus #deliver #help #i

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

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The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans. ↗

— John F. Kerry

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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

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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

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...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#history #inaugural-address #inspirational #politics #inspirational