Ernest Mandel Quotes

Since my adolescence, divisive politics has bothered me.

The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided?

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln, for in him I saw the destroyer.

Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

There can be but two great political parties in this country.

If I told you I was a Republican and you were a Democrat, no matter what I said after that, it would be tempered with your opinions.

It is uncomfortable seeing how very divisive politics has become.

I've had problems with the Republican establishment in the past.

People have been upset about the tenor and discord in Washington for a really long time.

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.