Non Partisanship Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.

Walter Isaacson

#3. I do not think partisanship should ever obscure the truth.

Theodore Roosevelt

#4. If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.

Kurt Andersen

#5. Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.

Thomas E. Mann

#6. A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line.

Colin Quinn

#7. Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward.

William J. Clinton

#9. By pumping up hyper-partisanship, our country (America) is playing with forces that can easily get out of control. We are giving purpose and cover - and sometimes a sense of purpose - to the crazy among us. We are encouraging a culture of extremism

John Avlon

#10. How singular," murmured Maximillian; "your father hates me, while your grandfather, on the contrary -- What strange feelings are aroused by politics.

Alexandre Dumas

#11. We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

Grover Norquist

#12. In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.

Cory Booker

#13. I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress.

Joy Davidman

#14. I don't have a 'side' - I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.

Glenn Greenwald

#15. We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.

Evgeny Morozov

#16. 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

#17. Partisanship must end at the waters edge.

Harry S. Truman

#18. Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind.

Malcolm Turnbull

#19. Like rats that cannot stop pressing a button, partisans may be simply unable to stop believing weird things. The partisan brain has been reinforced so many times for performing mental contortions that free it from unwanted beliefs. Extreme partisanship may be literally addictive.

Jonathan Haidt

#20. My heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization Less mindless partisanship, which at times sounds almost hateful to the ear of Americans. How we conduct ourselves and how we treat you, Judge Roberts, can be a great start toward reconciliation in our country.

Tom Coburn

#21. Feminism has nothing to do with partisanship.

Ronee Blakley

#22. The author observers that better technology actually increased division because rival outlets funded by rival parties could get their slant to the partisans

Harold Holzer

#23. In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art.

Wassily Kandinsky

#24. Because partisanship has made anything fair, which honor and propriety might once have kept quiet.

Stephanie Dray

#25. Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.

Cory Booker

#26. The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.

Harold Holzer

#27. Before a community can prosper, the people must believe in their leaders. They must know that at the core of every decision is careful planning, hard work, and unbending integrity rather than partisanship or self-gain. They must trust that the awesome power of government is not being abused.

Linda Lingle

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. The history of the GDR journalism is a story of partisanship.

Patrick Conley