Quotes About Polarization

Your enemies, those you stand sharply against, will help you to forge a support base that will not desert you. Do not crowd into the center, where everyone else is; there is no room to fight in a crowd. Polarize people, drive some of them away, and create a space for battle.

We have a long tradition in America of electing a president, celebrating him for a few days, and then spending four or eight years demonizing him, reviling him, or blindly defending him.

but having an entire policy of 'Us Good, Them Bad' does little more than create a magnet for trouble-makers.

Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic.

Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.

The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing.

As consumers of culture, we are lulled into passivity or, at best, prodded toward a state of pseudo-semi-self-awareness, encouraged toward either the defensive group identity of fanhood or a shallow, half-ironic eclecticism. Meanwhile, as citizens of the political commonwealth, we are conscripted into a polarized climate of ideological belligerence in which bluster too often substitutes for argument. There

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

A house divided cannot stand.

You know, I've spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.

Diese Leute, ob sie nun von rechts oder links anmarschieren, wollen die Blutvergiftung heilen, indem sie dem Patienten mit einem Beil den Kopf abschlagen. Allerdings wird die Blutvergiftung dabei aufhören, zu existieren, aber auch der Patient, und das heißt, die Therapie zu weit treiben.

recalled the rancorous, partisan tempers and epithets

The Democratic Party supports criminals and Islamic terrorists but has no sympathy for taxpayers.

Throw in "never read books" and you have the dictionary definition of a liberal. Being completely uninformed is precisely how most liberals stay liberal.

You know you're doing something right when you've reduced hordes of liberals to blind, sputtering rage.

If Clinton is elected or if Trump is going to get elected, I think the polarization in Congress will be greater than ever. Nothing is going to get done. It is going to be so ugly, so partisan, so back-biting. Well what if you elect a couple of Libertarians?

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

Politics is about divisions. Wherever you come in on the subject, there are divisions.

U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.

Modi's masterstroke has always been to blur the battlelines and construct an artificial enemy one that plays into primal instincts of pride and insecurity.

We have this joke in England that half the people want me to be prime minister, and the other half want me shot.

I don't do much political stuff because our nation is so divided, we can't say one thing without the other side automatically assumes that you are pro the other side.

Donald Trump is a disaster.

When we make political films, there are people with political opinions. They try to discredit you and run you down.