Quotes About Polarization

I want to be clear that by itself, positive thinking never works. Many socalled positive thinkers have felt negative most of their lives, and now they're trying to think positively. They are in a polarized state in which they are trying to think one way in order to override how they feel inside of them. They consciously think one way, but they are being the opposite. When the mind and body are in opposition, change will never happen.

In times of conflict, everyone retreated to their most tribal positions.

Do nothing or everything; the mediocre, the moderate, is repellent to me; I prefer an extreme.

Outrage has no time for dialogue, and it won't be distracted by nuance or even truth.

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

The conservatives love their cheap labor; the liberals love their cheap cause.

Political debate became polarized into bitter conflicts, with radical outsiders trying to press change on conservative insiders who, in the teeth of all the evidence, believed that all was for the best under the best of all possible constitutions.

My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.

There's no question that Ben Shapiro loves to provoke college students.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there's another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want to be in the same city - forget the same stage - with President Obama.

Jose Mourinho is the Floyd Mayweather Jr of football management. You either love him or hate him.

Politics is no longer being fought on traditional political lines.

'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.

I'm not allowed on FOX, and I'm not allowed on MSNBC.

Liberals watch MSNBC; conservatives watch Fox. They don't want to hear ten seconds of a liberal on Fox, and they don't want to hear ten seconds of a conservative on MSNBC.

Conservatives watch Fox News and read 'Breitbart.' Liberals watch MSNBC and read 'HuffPost.' When we agree, it's the truth; when we differ, it's fake news.

I don't think many people would disagree that the world is fractured.

I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.

Our country frequently seems more divided than ever on how to approach everything from climate change to the economy. I think the path to understanding begins with honest, open conversations.

For a while under Donald Trump, it was possible to believe that we could go back to a more functional, less rancorous time. This desire was expressed most eloquently at John McCain's funeral services.

Only two classes of books have universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

They don't make people like Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley anymore.