A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
America is a strong and resilient country. And I know we will succeed, if we put aside partisanship and politics and work… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When Kansas and Missouri work together, we can accomplish a lot - and also set an example at a time of extreme… — Laura Kelly Copy Share Image
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be… — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
When elected officials and others contribute to a climate and culture that fosters hyper-partisanship, we've got to blow the whistle. — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Mary Matalin and James Carville have given me more hope when it comes to love and relationships than any romance book or… — Meghan McCain Copy Share Image
We can't allow ourselves to descend down the rabbit hole of unbridled partisanship for partisan sake. — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process. — David Souter Copy Share Image
Logic, fact, morality, legality, ideology: All of it is irrelevant in understanding the Party of Trump. Republicans have made crystal clear that… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
It's time for political leaders across the ideological spectrum to realize that, while partisanship is understandable, hyper-partisanship is destructive to our country.… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
Let's fix our roads, and be the state that's not paralyzed by partisanship, but works together. And create the blueprint for rebuilding… — Gretchen Whitmer Copy Share Image
One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
“Please remember always... In a contest between the Truth and lies; Truth will always win. Truth is Eternal; and connected to Forever.… — Leland Lewis Copy Share Image
The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Maybe one thing that has happened is that the claims of non-partisanship of the mainstream media have been a little bit exploded.… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
“Bismarck had cunningly taught the parties not to aim at national appeal but to represent interests. They remained class or sectional pressure-groups… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Tactics and strategies ought to be based on what the real world is, and we do not have the political power to… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
I feel genuinely sorry for those who are so blinded by narrow partisanship that they cannot appreciate Limbaugh's energy, intelligence and satiric… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
For all the talk about the bitterness and the partisanship in American politics, is it really that bitter and partisan? Think of… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The conflict between left and right in modern republics is a sort of perpetual-motion mechanism and negative spiral at the same time.… — Guillermo Jimenez Copy Share Image
“the roll call votes cast by U.S. senators are much better accounted for by their own partisanship than by the preferences of… — Larry M. Bartels Copy Share Image
“I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“Many historians have noted an interesting phenomenon in American life in the years immediately after a war. In the councils of government… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Arnold's notion of the intellectual as disinterested critic distinguished him from both Marx and Hegel. For Marx, the proper function of the… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
“Mainly, though, the Democratic Party has become the party of reaction. In reaction to a war that is ill conceived, we appear… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“But the point is: On the right, they’re pretending that our “truthfulness” is what’s really important to them. Which, ironically, is not… — Chris Smith Copy Share Image
“The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus Paine was better than Burke when… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
![“For all the talk about the bitterness and the partisanship in American politics, is it really that bitter and partisan? Think of American history. Think of Joseph McCarthy. Think of the New Left. Think of [George] McGovern. Think of [Ronald] Reagan. Think of George Wallace. We've had an awful lot…” quote by William Kristol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/659/william-kristol-9091_american-history_for-all-the-talk-about-the-bitterness-an_1224660.jpg)
