Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both good politics and good policy.
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Making people's lives better is not a partisan issue.
The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.
Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.
I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.
We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.
Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
We need a foreign policy that is both tough... and smart. The good news? That is the historic legacy of the Democratic Party.
The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.
I and many other senators, Republican and Democrat, have expressed our sincere and long-held intent that Congress must approve any nuclear deal with Iran for months.
Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the respectable Beltway variety and he will twist himself into a pretzel denying it.