Quotes About Polarization

They [Democrats] don't even want us around.

I wish we had a more open discourse. It's just a shame that with our 24-hour news media and the Internet, people have become so fragmented. They only want to support their own worldview.

Obama wants to ruin America. Hillary [Clinton]too.

Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.

We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it's a Democratic Party of war and Wall Street.

You know they've come to this point where they want to blame climate change for quite literally everything now, and sorry, but the Green New Deal is not going to solve that.

The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized.

If you look at issues like immigration, gay marriage, gun regulation - these are all things that probably wouldn't be a source of much discussion at all in D.C., if they weren't sources of self-perpetuation.

The country is polarized. And I think part of it - it is not just social media. We get our facts from different places. People self-select with so many different cable channels and so many sources. I think that is a huge problem.

South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.

It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.

The Internet creates more space for extremism, and the echo chamber effect accelerates the process.

What emerges from the minority rule is more likely to be black-and-white, binary rules.

Winner-take-all effects are worsening:

They are not people--they are ideas. They are just extensions of the enemy.

And everyone else was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on a single issue.

And everyone was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on this single issue.

And everyone was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on this single issue. It was beyond madness.

She can't recall whether these were the colors of the pro-life or pro-choice forces, but then, it doesn't really matter. Both sides lost.

For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.

Congress started mixing politics with religion. BJP perfected it.

Despite frequently mocking anti-abortion activists as anti-science know-nothings, abortion rights absolutists are the ones who play fast and loose with the facts of abortion.

The Labour party is a lost cause for anybody who is moderate and sensible and believes in that left-of-centre view of life.

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.