#partisans

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#history #inaugural-address #inspirational #politics #inspirational

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

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

The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#bush #clearly #convinced #enjoys #george

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

— Brad Henry

#ever #time #today #true

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

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#constitution #extreme #fate #fathers #forgetfulness

To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#american people #awaken #citizen #disagree #duty

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

If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#direction #need #over #partisanship #patriotism