Mike Pence Quotes

I wouldn't call it a Breitbart audience. I would call it America.

I have become the poster child for calling all the Trump people racists, when, in fact, I don't think they're all racists, but they tolerated racism. And that's a problem.

People who oppose Obama are said to be racists - so I guess I'm a racist.

For me, I don't have to defend myself that I am not a racist. I won't go in that discussion.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.

Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

I have never been racist.

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that have gone by, than to the controversies which these parties have actually to decide.

People don't want to be thought of as racists ... all polls tend to over-report tolerance.

We cost the Democratic party the opportunity to demagogue the issue of race forever. And I am damn proud of that.

Many of Israel's leaders are inundated with extreme ideology that is centered around a deep sense of victimhood. Ghosts from the past blind their eyes from seeing that anyone else could suffer from discrimination in our modern state. In fact, the definition of "traitor" nowadays is "peacenik" or even leftist. The Jewish values that inspired Israel's Declaration of Independence are too often less relevant to government policy than the dead sea scrolls.

If hyperbolic political speech were outlawed, there’d be silence in America.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

Perhaps the reason Trump voters are so frequently the subject of caricature is that they so frequently conform to type.

Politics boils down to the stories we tell ourselves. And unfortunately, we tell ourselves different stories.

I'm not like Ann Coulter.