Quotes About Polarization

The conversation has become so divisive now on all types of immigration reform that it is really hard to move anything.

It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.

Squelching debate by branding it un-American is dishonest, dangerous, and, in itself, hateful.

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country.

We can't allow ourselves to descend down the rabbit hole of unbridled partisanship for partisan sake.

All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

For what religion has never had sects? Rest assured, Extremism is always the derrière.

We have demagogues on all sides of the political spectrum. It's not helpful. It's destructive. It's harmful. So, I don't like demagoguery whether it comes from the left, it comes from the right.

I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

The silence caused by politicizing speech is deafening.

I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.

So much of what we get on our news debate shows is really people spinning one way or the other, giving their talking points one way or the other.

This issue has brought out the ugly in our society.

Trying to, you know, persuade others to join our side. Trying to make the other side look bad. Just like the Internet always was.

Brazil is very unpopular in Brazil.

As a country, we should be moving forward, but instead conservative lawmakers keep dragging us back.

Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys.

Conservatives are either stupid or brilliant. Pick a narrative, leftist MSM. You can't have it both ways.

There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war.

Divisive national politics continue to chip away at our daily life.

There was nothing to be done with him and his kind - unless you were prepared to shoot them.

Having lived so long, I can't tell the difference between the two political parties. They both sound like broken records that started skipping after the founding fathers died. Now there were some real men!

Both her mom and dad were so right wing they were like one-winged birds forever flapping in circles.