#artisans

What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits affection and respect. That encourages them. That acknowledges that the small things that divide us are not worthy of the moment; that agrees that the things that can be done to ease the stresses we feel as a nation should be encouraged, while those that encourage our cohesion as a nation should be supported. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#patriotism #politics #respect #respect

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#independence #partisanship #politics #radicalism #iraq

I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

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Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#because #consume #england #land #produce

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. ↗

— Michael Crapo

#american people #beyond #common #common ground #congress

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#forget #golden #greatness #history #march

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

#curse #duty #everything #great #other

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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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

#change #demagoguery #emotions #envy #exploiting

What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game. ↗

— John Avlon

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