As one who helped engineer two presidential campaigns, I know partisan passion.

David Brooks laments that he has never "seen a government report so distorted by partisan passions."

For him everything now depended on this man to man encounter, from head to foot he was quivering with partisan passion.

I have never in my life seen a government report so distorted by partisan passions.

But, he said, partisan passions had grown so venomous that he changed his mind.

The review is an outstanding example of putting "partisan passions" aside and putting reason first.

More than 30 years after his death, Chifley's name still aroused partisan passions.

This is traditionally the time when partisan passions are running less strongly and serious legislation has more of a chance.

The Utah Republican was speaking from partisan passion.

Five months before the November elections, partisan passions ran high.