#partisan

Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the respectable Beltway variety and he will twist himself into a pretzel denying it. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#answer #any #ask #beltway #both

I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy. ↗

— George Voinovich

#bipartisan #candor #clear #committee #during

The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it's true during the Bush administration. It's bipartisan. ↗

— Andrew Niccol

#arms #biggest #bipartisan #bush #bush administration

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it. ↗

— Lamar Alexander

#big #bipartisan #country #goal #legislation

I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair. ↗

— Donald M. Payne

#fair #i #partisan #very

But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

#consequences #country #disperse #energies #honor

I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation. ↗

— Heather Wilson

#bipartisan #bit #compromise #got #i

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#clamor #difficult #discriminate #heated #partisans

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