"Moral government rests absolutely upon partisanship. ... We live in fact in a classic period of ideological-partisan warfare, which began with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and in which two radically differing worldviews are engaged in an epochal struggle to determine which should rule the nation. This is a large event, and it is a noble one. "
--Michael Kelly
"Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making."
--John Milton
"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim."
--George Santayana
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, we have a two-party system."
--Bob Thaves, comic strip "Frank & Ernest"
"Bicameralism is...conducive to gridlock. But there are 6 billion people on this planet and about 5.7 billion of them would be better off if they lived under governments more susceptible to gridlock. Gridlock is not an American problem, it is an American achievement."
--George Will
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