James Spader Quotes

It is uncomfortable seeing how very divisive politics has become.

We don't know each other. Democrats don't know Republicans, Republicans don't know Democrats.

Since my adolescence, divisive politics has bothered me.

I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Each side had its uninformed fanatics. And each side had political leaders who fanned the flames with their rhetoric.

The political scenario has gotten so divisive - not only in Washington, D.C., but across the country, too.

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

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?

There is nothing I dread so much as a division of the Republic into two great political parties, each arranged under its leader and converting measures in opposition to each other.

We have this civil war at home between our own version of Shiites and Sunnis called Republicans and Democrats…

These days everything is discussed in terms of political partisan perspective including the weather—especially the weather.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say... It's like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They're all opinions.

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

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

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

I represented everything Democrats loathed.

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.

Trump is, to some extent, redefining what we think of as polarization in this country. Where polarization has been seen as ideological, it is now being seen almost as behavioral.

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.

It's a bit unfair to accuse Obama of dividing the nation when the facts show that it already is.

Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.

South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.

There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue his true beliefs.

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?