Nonpartisanship Quotes

I try not to make it personal, and I don't care about partisan politics one way or the other.

We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens.

I made the decision when I was promoted to colonel that I would no longer vote in national elections because I feel that its my job to serve the Commander in Chief.

I'm not a politician. I don't pretend to be a politician. I'm an independent.

I was not elected to serve one party.

If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.

I demand that all considerations of class, section, and party shall be subordinated to the loftier and more patriotic object which all of us recognize as best for the whole country and its people

I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.

The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law!

Neutrality is not politics.

I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

It is well to be independent also well not to be neutral.

I grew up in the Justice Department. I served 12 years as a line lawyer in the public integrity section. This department under me will not have any kind of political interference. I will not allow political interference in the Justice Department. Those who might attempt to do that will be rebuffed.

I'm an independent, straight in the middle. I've donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike.

It is a greater thing to be a good citizen than to be a good Republican or a good Democrat.

Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat.

Congress should not be like the Super Bowl where you have to have one team that's going to win and another team that's going to be a loser.

I think that being liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncomitted to a cause but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen.

I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah or for or against Israel.

We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.

You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between left or right. Well, I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down.

In Washington, when you’re a leader, you have to put aside partisan politics to do what’s right for the people.

The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.

I want to be the president for all Americans, regardless of your political beliefs, where you come from, what you look like, your religion.