quotations about partisanship
There's never a perfect bipartisan bill in the eyes of a partisan.
BILL CLINTON
The Economist, December 18, 2010
It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.
TOM DELAY
CNN, June 9, 2006
As long as partisanship is communicated openly, as in formally stated endorsements of political candidates or in editorials and commentaries, it is a legitimate way to exercise press freedom and contribute to diversity in the media system.
GIANPIETRO MAZZOLENI
The International Encyclopedia of Political Communication
My fixed principle never to be the tool of any man, nor the partisan of any nation, would forever exclude me from the smiles and favors or courts.
JOHN ADAMS
diary, 1782