#partisans

I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#bipartisanship #fan #i #never #obama

Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan. ↗

— Norman Lear

#doubts #lot #nobody #partisanship

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

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?' ↗

— Colin Powell

#bipartisanship #ever #everybody #finally #gee

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

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

#both #both sides #case #clear #couple

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us. ↗

— John Avlon

#always #conspiracy #divide #far-left #left wing

If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today. ↗

— Brad Henry

#ever #time #today #true

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 understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It's a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter. ↗

— James Wolcott

#assume #bipartisanship #cram #difficult #down