Brad Carson Quotes

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

It's a sad commentary on where politics is today. If someone disagrees with you, you're either Attila the Hun or a leftist liberal.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

We need less bipartisanship in Congress.

Donald Trump is a divisive name in a locker room.

It is uncomfortable seeing how very divisive politics has become.

Since my adolescence, divisive politics has bothered me.

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.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.

Liberals and the Democratic Party are demonic.

With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the Tea Party.

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

I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country.

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

One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it.

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

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.

The Republican and Democratic parties have accomplished an amazing feat with the red state/blue state paradigm. They've convinced everyone that regardless of how bad they are, the other guy is worse.

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

The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.