Christine Todd Whitman Quotes
We elect these people not to represent their parties but to represent us.
She was one of the very few remaining bi Partisan Republicans. There had been a de facto purge of liberal Republicans from the party.
Christine Todd Whitman, Governor of New Jersey (Republican), Administrator, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Reference to Members of Congress and their hyper-partisan attacks on the other party while little or no legislation could be enacted for the nation, Interview, Al Jazeera News, October 18, 2014
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This is a formal codification of the position that was made by the great orator Edmund Burke: {194922}.
Also used in his Message to Congress, May 25, 1967
Some Senators stated that in good conscience they could not vote to curtail freedom of speech or expression. See Edmund Burke {194922} for one of the great statements on the legislator’s obligation.
Note that early constitutional experts assumed that one of the President’s roles was to be non partisan and control partisanship. Note the phrase ‘prevent the artifices of party’. The early founders were very wary of political parties of ‘factions’ as Madison called them. However, most were extremely partisan although in the Presidency partisanship was toned down by George Washington but after him, partisan ship became the norm.
Christine Todd Whitman is an American Republican politician and author who served as the 50th Governor of New Jersey, from 1994 to 2001, and as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the administration of President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003. She is the first and only woman to be governor of New Jersey, to date.
