quotations about partisanship
Partisanship is a valuable heuristic for making political choices when other information is limited, so partisanship plays a greater role in low information environments or among those with limited political knowledge. This has particular implications in new or emerging democracies, especially where literacy may be low and/or the party system has yet to consolidate.
IAN MCALLISTER
"Voting behavior and political institutions", Routledge Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions
Think of it this way: partisanship at least gives our elected officials something to do--and keeping them busy keeps them in the public eye where we can keep an eye on them.
MARK DOUGLAS
Believing Aloud: Reflections on Being Religious in the Public Square
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
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