Quotes About Polarization

You can't get away from the right-wing politics but that's the same all over the world.

The political scenario has gotten so divisive - not only in Washington, D.C., but across the country, too.

Our economy, our safety, our jobs all take a back seat to the left's political desire to hurt Trump.

It seems like the whole world is either with Israel or with Palestine. It seems like there is nobody who is actually in the middle, because the only loud people are the ones in the extreme.

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

I am not pollyannaish about the deep partisan battles that divide us.

In the old way of doing business, it was fine to disagree and then go to dinner. Now it's personal and more partisan, and a disagreement on one issue leads to a disagreement on another issue.

We need Congress to do more than just engage in partisan games.

The people in Iowa know that Washington isn't working. It's devolved into partisan politics and a lot of gridlock and obstruction.

There is very little chance of the modern Republican Party putting the national interest above their own partisan interests.

Senator Blunt genuinely sees everything through the lens of partisan politics.

You've heard me question whether the partisanship in Washington has made us, as a nation, ungovernable - and, indeed, Democrats are doing their very best to make sure of it.

Logic, fact, morality, legality, ideology: All of it is irrelevant in understanding the Party of Trump. Republicans have made crystal clear that nothing matters to them other than partisanship.

The party of Kennedy is also the party of Eastland. The party of Javits is also the party of Goldwater.

YouGov BrandIndex reveals an interesting fact. McDonald's, for example, has 33 percent lovers and 29 percent haters, a near balanced polarization. Starbucks has a similar

I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.

The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

What we don't need to work toward is polarizing America any greater than it is. Look, I'm up here in Washington, D.C., in the Congress of the United States, and we have, all day, a lot of verbal vomit that is doing enormous damage.

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.

I will do everything to make sure you never have reason again to vote for extremes.

We are not, in some fundamental ways, a single country. The map of that vast red swatch of states and rural counties that voted for Trump, and the blue coastal edges and scattered urban centers where Clinton won, are a pictograph of mutual contempt.

There's a real sense - that we have to get past on the left - that every person who voted for Trump is evil.

My own students say they don't trust anyone who voted for Trump. How can you have a democracy with that?