Murray Kempton Quotes

Now, a river of blood will divide France from its enemies.

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

Politics is a highly tribal business.

I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.

There cannot be a greater Judgment befall a Country than such a dreadful Spirit of Division as rends a Government into two distinct People, and makes them greater Strangers and more adverse to one another, than if they were actually two different Nations.

A nation divided against itself cannot stand.

There used to be a civility. Today, members of Congress would rather destroy another member than compromise.

We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.

Pat Buchanan likes to say we're in a culture war. The Civil War was a culture war, and brothers killed brothers. I wonder if they avoided dinner conversation about politics. What if this culture war turned into a real war? I'd look back on that dinner and wish that I'd ordered a side of argument

We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.

Members of Congress don’t speak to their colleagues any more. They talk to the national audience.

We are a divided nation in the worst sense of the word, and we don't hear the other side.

Politics generally doesn't mix with sports very well.

I think partisanship is probably the greatest problem in Washington, D.C.

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

Unfortunately, our country has become so politically polarized that one side routinely attempts to destroy and discredit the other.

It is uncomfortable seeing how very divisive politics has become.

In America, we have a divided nation. We have a very divided nation.

Barack Obama has come to divide, and he succeeded. This country has never been more divided. Well, throw out the Civil War, but in the modern times this country has never been more divided.

This country was seriously divided.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.

America is a divided country; we have always been a divided country, but even more divided now, thanks to Trump and a lot of other things, as well.

The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.