Lauren Mayberry Quotes

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.

We have seen in Washington the worst kind of partisanship, the worst kind of gridlock. There is nothing wrong with our country. There is much wrong with our politics ….

If you characterize the political opposition as evil, there is no way you can compromise with them. There is no way that you can have a drink with them

The politicians are not the only people who are in their own silos. Many of our citizens only watch or listen to the news that they want to hear, and if there is anything else, they turn it off. We all need to listen to the people who are on the other side.

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

The person in New York City is showing too little empathy for the Trump voter. The Trump voter is showing too little empathy for the person who's very worried about the refugee ban. They're not spending enough time with each other to have a meaningful conversation.

When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.

You don't see people that are willing to say 'You know what, you might be different politically, but let's find some common ground, let's find ways that we're actually similar.' We just assume immediately that we have nothing in common, what can even talk to that person about.

Some of the most hard-working, generous people I've met in my whole life didn't really want to vote for him but did. My calling is to step onto the other side and humanise and portray the struggles of many Trump voters.

Trump is not the problem. He is the symptom of the problem where Americans no longer believe that the system works for them.

I think the thing with 'Rise Up,' something that really does bug me, is that America has become very divided.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

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

We'd do better to follow the admonition of Jesus about loving our neighbours. People in the U.S. are capable of forgiveness and willing to see one another's point of view, but when matters become politicised, we're less able to do that.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.

Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.

The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us.

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

You have ruined politics in India by dragging up a whole lot of unwholesome elements in Indian life and giving them political prominence. It is a crime to mix up religion and politics the way you have done.

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

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.

The people are fed up with politics and partisanship.