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They felt that it would release the stranglehold that partisanship had on government.

Sherry Bebitch Jeffe

My fear is if there is a trial we're going to see the partisanship getting involved again -- attack, counter-attack, a challenge, a counter-challenge and it's disastrous to this country.

Dr. Robert Schuller

We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.

Michael Crapo

Yes, I think he has shown some partisanship. But basically, I think his sense of what's fair overrides his sense of partisanship. This (Jim) Black thing isn't something the Democratic members enjoyed.

Lorraine Shinn

People are choosing performance over partisanship.

Adam Goodman

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

Blatant partisanship to use the Elections Division to their advantage.

Scott Maddox

It was very well done. There was no partisanship whatsoever. And I don't think partisanship will enter into it at all.

Robert Porter

I'm hopeful through the debate on this nominee, and the next Supreme Court nomination, we can avoid the destructive partisanship that approached the brink of absolutism in ideology.

Pat Robertson

It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process.

David Souter

Maybe it tames the partisanship a little bit.

Marc Wilson

The problem in these cases is that fundamentally it is all just a matter of degree: How much partisanship is too much partisanship.

Nathaniel Persily

Local partisanship in Congress was unbelievable; and let their be no doubt both parties were responsible for it.

Stephanie Herseth

I think Canadians deserve better, ... I think if we, collectively as Parliamentarians enter this session working on behalf of Canadians, and not engaging in the partisanship that was so predominant in the last session then I think it will be a better session.

Tony Valeri

I told him that if he ran (for governor) his bipartisan honeymoon as mayor would come to an end and partisanship would dominate quickly.

Floyd Ciruli

This shameful display of angry partisanship from Howard Dean is more of the angry face of the Democratic Party, and it's not helping us win the war on terror.

Terry Holt

One of my fondest goals is to try to bridge the gap between urban and rural Oregon. Democrats identify with urban people, Republicans with rural people. We need to get rid of partisanship.

Jim Gilbert

They're pretty fair. It seems that partisanship is not an issue.

Ed Ableser