Quotessence
Home / Topics / Partisans Quotes

Partisans Quotes

Browse 265 quotes about Partisans.

Related topics

PeoplePoliticalThinkingIfsPartyPartisan PoliticsWayStatesRepublicanShouldDemocratBelievePresidentAmericaCountryMenFirstsIssuesNeedsSecurityKnowsLeftTryingCongressElectionEnemyGovernmentInterestKindReasonTogetherUnitedUnited StatesYearsBickeringBipartisanDoeHas BeensLeaderLooksProcessSeemsStillsValuesVoteWantWellsChildrenDifferentFightingHouseIdeasMayOpinionPartisanshipSidesWar

Partisans Quotes

“After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.”

StillsShowsHouseLeftWhiteBlueDemocratWhite HouseHostAmerican PoliticsOccasionalCommentatorsPartisansAnalystsTalk Shows
Book:Why Women Should Rule the World
Create image

“The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans and empty quacks.”

PeopleMenWritingWarNationsPartyLeaderKnowingEmptyCorruptionSavedVotingTemperPartisansGreat NationsTrue ManQuacks
Author:William James
Create image

“Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power.”

MenShouldHas BeensBookFactsTurnsFallResponsibilitySituationLeaderDemocracyPositionCitizensLateFalling In LoveUncomfortableUnlikelyThrustCivicsPartisansGood CitizenBest LeaderZealot
Author:Stephen King
Create image

“Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate. This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both.”

ThinkingKindWarStatesFactsGovernmentInterestCommonLeaderClearWindRevolutionFoolSpeechConsequenceOpponentsFoundingGreat LeaderPartisansOratoryCommon Interests
Book:A Soldier of the Great War
Create image

“Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over various issues, government functioned pretty well. Legislators routinely crossed party lines when they voted, and when they drank; filibusters in the Senate were reserved for the biggest bills; think tanks produced independent research, not partisan talking points. The "D." or "R." after a politician's name did not tell you what he thought about everything, or everything you thought about him.”

ThinkingWellsWarStatesGovernmentPassionNamesLinesPartyTalkingIssuesColdPoliticianRepublicanResearchLogicIndependentInstitutionsBillsDemocratVariousAcceptedDespiteWelfareSenateCold WarSeventiesTanksDrankReservedPartisansLegislatorsNineteenWelfare StateFilibuster
Author:George Packer
Create image

“This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is not waged with the most brutal means, we will shortly reach the point where the available forces are insufficient to control the area. It is therefore not only justified, but it is the duty of the troops to use all means without restriction, even against women and children, so long as it ensures success.”

IfsMeanChildrenLongWarUseFightingForcePrinciplesDutyAreasAvailableTerrorismConventionsAntiwarTroopsBrutalJustifiedRestrictionPartisansInsufficientGenevaGallantryGeneva Convention
Author:Wilhelm Keitel
Create image

“The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.”

PeopleShouldGovernmentPoliticalHoursResultsEffortShareDependsCitizensConcernDefeatAppreciationLimitationTriumphOperationsHeatNationalismBitternessSoberStrifeZealBegetsPartisansExtravaganceAnimosityAcquiescence
Book:Addresses, State Papers and Letters
Create image

“It does look like it's almost like South Africa to this extent: You have a white - what's the word - feeble minority. It's losing its majority status. And it says, the Republican Party, 'We can only get so many white votes. So, we got to reduce the votes of others.' It does look that way. Only the - maybe you're non-partisan, but only Republicans have pushed this in these 31 states. No Democratic legislature. You gotta look at the pattern here. You talk about profiling. I'm sorry, Republicans do this stuff.”

WayLooksDoeStatesStuffWhitePartyRepublicanLosingVoteMajorityDemocraticSouthSorryPatternsMinoritiesSouth AfricaI'm SorryRepublican PartyLegislaturePartisans
Author:Chris Matthews
Create image

“This partisan decision by a packed GOP state Supreme Court takes away worker's rights to bargain for a safe place to work. It underscores the need to vote for me in Aug. 12th primary. As governor, I will call a special session of the Legislature on day one to restore workers' rights, health care and retirement.”

NeedsStatesCareDecisionRightsSpecialSafeVoteCourtWorkersSupremePrimariesHealth CareWorking ItRetirementGovernorsSupreme CourtSessionBargainsLegislaturePartisansGopSafe PlacesVote For MeWorkers Rights
Author:Chris Larson
Create image