Lukas Forchhammer Quotes

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse, which is fun to cover, but I'm convinced from my travels that people also thirst for more details as well as insight and context.

I am so focused on the fact that the conversation doesn't address any of the things I think are important. I think our political dialogue in America is distorted and completely off track.

I turned off the talking politicos. Too much jabbering at each other. Not enough care about humans.

Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.

I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself.

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic.

I keep my politics a little closer to me than others do.

Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.

You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

I'm a proud Republican - there's no issue with that at all, so why can't I be a proud Republican and just try to solve problems?

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

I am so tired of being told by Democratic operatives to 'suck it up' because so many other profound issues are at stake.

There's only one way we're going to change our political climate and ensure we establish some respect in our discourse. And that is to show there is a real price to pay for being a disrespectful partisan idiot.

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

American political life has reached the stage where a vocal and powerful group uses "liberal" as a term of contempt.... Never before in our history has this been true. Liberals and conservatives have disagreed and, on occasion, have stoutly fought each other; but not in the lifelong recollection of the speaker has any similar attempt been made to convert an honorable word for a socially useful attitude into a sling of mud to be thrown at a political opponent.

Too much of our political debate...has become a race to the bottom. An exchange of insults and slanders more appropriate to reality television than a legislature.

Trump has raised the very issues I raised in the early '90s.

When I have political discussions with my friends, I piss them off because my personal position is that there's no difference between the parties. It's the Red Sox and the Mets.

In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.

I ain't rocking with Trump, but politics I kinda keep to myself.

Getting a lot more Americans interested in politics is not the same as getting a lot more Americans knowledgeable about the workings of democracy or government. It has brought the worldview associated with sports-talk radio to politics; you’ve got a team and you want that team to win, and the other team is always the worst, and the refs are always unfairly treating your side. Heaven forbid you concede that the other team played a better game.

We've had the trivialization of our politics going on ever since we had electronic media.