#partisan

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#bitter #degree #democrats #deteriorated #healthy

Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders). ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#additional #bipartisan #deeply #gain #incumbents

In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#believe #believed #did #economic #encouragement

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#american people #anymore #bipartisanship #divided #down

Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception. ↗

— Ben Edwards

#due #especially #exception #film #film making

I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#fighting #girl #i #little #little girl

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons. ↗

— John Bright

#commons #every #fact #folly #house

You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan. ↗

— James Carville

#activity #another #bipartisan #criticize #democrat

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it. ↗

— Chris Christie

#benefits #billion #bipartisan #did #dollars

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#balanced #bipartisan #commission #controls #debt