Quotes about Polarization

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Today it's "us versus them" in America. Politics is little more than blood sport. As a result, our willingness to believe the worst about everyone outside our own bubble is growing, and our ability to solve problems and seize opportunities is shrinking.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.

We're heading into nut country today.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.

Whenever communities, families, nations, churches are divided, we sniff out the diabolic.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

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

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

Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.