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They are afraid of being judged as being partisan. Heaven forbid that we should criticize people who, after all, share a different value system. 'But it's all relevant. It's all equally relative. We're all the same. And God and the devil, they're the same, aren't they, really? Right and wrong? It's really just two faces of the same coin,' we have lost our moral compass completely, and, unless we find it, we're going to lose our civilization. I think we're going to lose Western European Christian civilization, anyway. – John Rhys-Davies	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think we need to finish the job of removing the very irrational restrictions that are in current law, it's very unfortunate, I think, that closing Guantanamo has become a partisan issue for the most part. – Clifford Sloan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It was like spiking the football, it would be partisan to demand a roll call vote. – Jared Huffman	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
My vision was not a partisan vision. It was a vision about people, about what we could accomplish together, if we are to flourish as a people, we have to fall in love with America again. – George Pataki	Found on CNN 8 years ago
That claim is demonstrably false, and it is false not according to some partisan spin on the numbers, but because the organization’s own tax filings contradict the claim. – Sean Davis	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We always expected that while Hillary Clinton focused on helping everyday Americans get ahead, the Republicans would focus on attacks rather than ideas, it appears that this book is being used to aid this coordinated attack strategy, twisting previously known facts into absurd conspiracy theories. It will not be the first work of partisan-fueled fiction about the Clintons' record, and we know it will not be the last. – Bill Clinton	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think that's a poetic description of what has happened and poetry, like most language, is limited but it does have wings ... to carry a point, Giuliani pushes for Lynch confirmation 'A moderately tough confirmation' Senate Republicans adamantly deny the delay in scheduling a vote on Lynch's nomination is because she is African-American. Many point out that Lynch, if confirmed, would be replacing the country's first African-American attorney general who was confirmed by an overwhelming margin. Instead, Republicans and Democrats say the delay is part of an ongoing partisan battle. For some, it's part of a fight over a human trafficking bill that has stalled in the Senate. For others, the delay is retaliation for President Obama's 2014 executive actions on immigration. On the eve of Holder's announcement of his plans to leave the Department of Justice, the political number crunchers at FiveThrirtyEight.com predicted whoever the President nominated would. – Lorenzo Lynch	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I really don't think these are partisan issues. Only in Washington do they become partisan; not with the American people. So Republicans out in the communities are rooting for us. – Richard Nixon	Found on CNN 9 years ago
While he was seen by his fiercest critics as a partisan lightning rod, that's not the prism through which Ted Kennedy saw the world, nor was it the prism through which his colleagues saw Ted Kennedy. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Since its filing we have consistently maintained that Mr. Restis' suit was meritless. United Against Nuclear Iran is a bi-partisan not-for-profit policy and advocacy organization that will not be silenced by intimidation or threat, through economic and social means and through the exercise of their First Amendment rights, the officers and staff of UANI have acted courageously and patriotically in their efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. – Lee Wolosky	Found on CNN 9 years ago
This is something that in the wisdom of the three Republicans did not require further inquiry, regardless of the apparent partisan nature of the complaint. – Kenneth Gross	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It illustrates that although the FEC splits on party lines, they don't split for partisan advantage. – Paul Ryan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
At this point she is already considered by voters as a candidate in full and, as a result, a story like this is one is viewed through such a prism by voters, for those outside of D.C., this is just the latest in a long string of partisan he saids, she saids that is hard to follow and does not appear especially relevant to their lives. – Chris Lehane	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I'm not naïve, it could hurt me politically, but I don’t worry about it because that's not what I care about. ... Our national security and the future of our country is infinitely more important than partisan politics or my personal political future. – Carol Gabbard	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We don't want this to ever become in any way partisan. It never has been. It can't be now. And all those who try to make it partisan, I think, should be held to account. – Malcolm Hoenlein	Found on CNN 9 years ago
A lot of Democrats feel that they have to stick with their president and not take this kind of bipartisan approach, because they're now looking at it as something that is a partisan attack. – Henry Waxman	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The Republican Senate has started off as the least productive, most partisan, most contentious Senate in recent memory, from bypassing committees on every single bill so far to trying to silence senators who dared to disagree with him to failing to hold a single Friday vote, Sen. McConnell is running a closed and partisan process that is extremely unproductive for the middle class. – Adam Jentleson	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
They've got to stop the partisan politics, you cannot connect this immigration issue to funding of an agency which is responsible for the protection of the homeland. – Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It is the Republicans in Congress who are causing this problem, i don't want this to be partisan. Have a debate on immigration, but never, never should you stop funding to the department of homeland security. – Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Senate Democrats -- especially those who've voiced opposition to the President's executive overreach — should end their partisan filibuster of Department of Homeland Security funding. – Mitch McConnell	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Protecting America’s children from Big Data shouldn’t be a partisan issue, i’m glad to work across the aisle to find the appropriate balance between technology in the classroom and a parent’s right to protect their child’s privacy. – Luke Messer	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They allowed partisan and personal issues to carry the country over the cliff where the executive is ruling by decree and there is the greatest likelihood of political paralysis and street violence. These issues should have been resolved two years ago and they have been allowed to fester and now we are about to see the explosion. – Mark Schneider	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The last two years have fundamentally changed the dynamics of this debate [on the tax code], as we have seen the weaponization of the IRS, as we have seen the Obama administration using the IRS in a partisan manner to punish it’s political enemies. – Republican Sen.	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It is the voters and not political pundits and not partisan caucuses that should decide who serves in office. – Joseph Morrissey	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

They are afraid of being judged as being partisan. Heaven forbid that we should criticize people who, after all, share a different value system. 'But it's all relevant. It's all equally relative. We're all the same. And God and the devil, they're the same, aren't they, really? Right and wrong? It's really just two faces of the same coin,' we have lost our moral compass completely, and, unless we find it, we're going to lose our civilization. I think we're going to lose Western European Christian civilization, anyway.

– John Rhys-Davies

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think we need to finish the job of removing the very irrational restrictions that are in current law, it's very unfortunate, I think, that closing Guantanamo has become a partisan issue for the most part.

– Clifford Sloan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It was like spiking the football, it would be partisan to demand a roll call vote.

– Jared Huffman

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

My vision was not a partisan vision. It was a vision about people, about what we could accomplish together, if we are to flourish as a people, we have to fall in love with America again.

– George Pataki

Found on CNN
8 years ago

That claim is demonstrably false, and it is false not according to some partisan spin on the numbers, but because the organization’s own tax filings contradict the claim.

– Sean Davis

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We always expected that while Hillary Clinton focused on helping everyday Americans get ahead, the Republicans would focus on attacks rather than ideas, it appears that this book is being used to aid this coordinated attack strategy, twisting previously known facts into absurd conspiracy theories. It will not be the first work of partisan-fueled fiction about the Clintons' record, and we know it will not be the last.

– Bill Clinton

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I think that's a poetic description of what has happened and poetry, like most language, is limited but it does have wings ... to carry a point, Giuliani pushes for Lynch confirmation 'A moderately tough confirmation' Senate Republicans adamantly deny the delay in scheduling a vote on Lynch's nomination is because she is African-American. Many point out that Lynch, if confirmed, would be replacing the country's first African-American attorney general who was confirmed by an overwhelming margin. Instead, Republicans and Democrats say the delay is part of an ongoing partisan battle. For some, it's part of a fight over a human trafficking bill that has stalled in the Senate. For others, the delay is retaliation for President Obama's 2014 executive actions on immigration. On the eve of Holder's announcement of his plans to leave the Department of Justice, the political number crunchers at FiveThrirtyEight.com predicted whoever the President nominated would.

– Lorenzo Lynch

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I really don't think these are partisan issues. Only in Washington do they become partisan; not with the American people. So Republicans out in the communities are rooting for us.

– Richard Nixon

Found on CNN
9 years ago

While he was seen by his fiercest critics as a partisan lightning rod, that's not the prism through which Ted Kennedy saw the world, nor was it the prism through which his colleagues saw Ted Kennedy.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Since its filing we have consistently maintained that Mr. Restis' suit was meritless. United Against Nuclear Iran is a bi-partisan not-for-profit policy and advocacy organization that will not be silenced by intimidation or threat, through economic and social means and through the exercise of their First Amendment rights, the officers and staff of UANI have acted courageously and patriotically in their efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

– Lee Wolosky

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This is something that in the wisdom of the three Republicans did not require further inquiry, regardless of the apparent partisan nature of the complaint.

– Kenneth Gross

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It illustrates that although the FEC splits on party lines, they don't split for partisan advantage.

– Paul Ryan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

At this point she is already considered by voters as a candidate in full and, as a result, a story like this is one is viewed through such a prism by voters, for those outside of D.C., this is just the latest in a long string of partisan he saids, she saids that is hard to follow and does not appear especially relevant to their lives.

– Chris Lehane

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I'm not naïve, it could hurt me politically, but I don’t worry about it because that's not what I care about. ... Our national security and the future of our country is infinitely more important than partisan politics or my personal political future.

– Carol Gabbard

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We don't want this to ever become in any way partisan. It never has been. It can't be now. And all those who try to make it partisan, I think, should be held to account.

– Malcolm Hoenlein

Found on CNN
9 years ago

A lot of Democrats feel that they have to stick with their president and not take this kind of bipartisan approach, because they're now looking at it as something that is a partisan attack.

– Henry Waxman

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The Republican Senate has started off as the least productive, most partisan, most contentious Senate in recent memory, from bypassing committees on every single bill so far to trying to silence senators who dared to disagree with him to failing to hold a single Friday vote, Sen. McConnell is running a closed and partisan process that is extremely unproductive for the middle class.

– Adam Jentleson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

They've got to stop the partisan politics, you cannot connect this immigration issue to funding of an agency which is responsible for the protection of the homeland.

– Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It is the Republicans in Congress who are causing this problem, i don't want this to be partisan. Have a debate on immigration, but never, never should you stop funding to the department of homeland security.

– Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Senate Democrats -- especially those who've voiced opposition to the President's executive overreach — should end their partisan filibuster of Department of Homeland Security funding.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Protecting America’s children from Big Data shouldn’t be a partisan issue, i’m glad to work across the aisle to find the appropriate balance between technology in the classroom and a parent’s right to protect their child’s privacy.

– Luke Messer

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They allowed partisan and personal issues to carry the country over the cliff where the executive is ruling by decree and there is the greatest likelihood of political paralysis and street violence. These issues should have been resolved two years ago and they have been allowed to fester and now we are about to see the explosion.

– Mark Schneider

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The last two years have fundamentally changed the dynamics of this debate [on the tax code], as we have seen the weaponization of the IRS, as we have seen the Obama administration using the IRS in a partisan manner to punish it’s political enemies.

– Republican Sen.

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It is the voters and not political pundits and not partisan caucuses that should decide who serves in office.

– Joseph Morrissey

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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