Steve Rushin Quotes

As a Democrat in a red state, I often spend days among crowds where there are almost no Democratic voters in sight. I listen to them, work with them and try to persuade them.

While I am grateful for the friendships and relationships that I have with my Republican colleagues, it would be naive to pretend that those friendships will change the way that major policies are enacted in Arizona.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out.

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.

In my opinion, the polarization of our politics has mostly been brought about by the massive infusion of money—mostly spent on negative advertising that create divisions among the population that watches television and the two parties.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

I'm not sure the people who are voting for Trump want to be pulled together with the people who are voting for Clinton and vice versa.

We've got a major problem, we've got a divide between the left, which understands how vital Hollywood and propaganda in communications is, and a conservative movement that thinks "no, we're the ones who are going to solve all the issues in America, we're congressmen, how could you not trust us?".

Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.

I'm of the school that you've got to show a distinction between Democrats and Republicans. And in order to have the base energized, you've got to show that the party stands for something.

I said I'm going to vote for Hillary. But my philosophy is that everything's workable. If Trump is president, I'll work with that guy. I don't know if he's terrible or what. He's refreshing in that he doesn't speak in that political way. I don't quite understand why everybody hates Hillary so much.

It's normal that elections make fierce partisans of many of us. It's normal that Mr. Trump would attract the usual right-wing buffoons to his banners. Normal, also, is that many voters may not be troubled by Mr. Trump's cruder statements when they hear him addressing their deepest economic and social anxieties.

At the end of the day, I think Donald Trump will be the great unifier of the Democratic Party.

I'm not someone who thinks Republicans are always wrong and Democrats are always right.

It's been interesting seeing how vulnerable Obama is: not the secure president I thought he was or the strong leader that many people hoped he would be. He's a conciliator. But I've been listening to the Republican primary debates, and they're a bunch of lunatics. Just crazy.

I don't even think the biggest divide is between Republicans and Democrats. I think it's between institutionalists and reformers.

I don't think Republicans are evil. I think they mostly have a different philosophy of government than I do.

I no longer believe that every leftist simply has a different means of achieving a successful route for America as I did formerly.

There was the slow discovery for me in the early '80s that Republicans are people too... That Republicans are perfectly reasonable people... and that Republicans can be right about something.

Personally, I find the decisions and actions of my Tory colleagues appalling, but I also know plenty of Labour voters who are less than perfect.

My own students say they don't trust anyone who voted for Trump. How can you have a democracy with that?

Since when is politics consistent?

I wouldn't suppose for one moment that there's a single one of Trump's voters that would be anything but confirmed in their beliefs.

Historically, Democrats have been far more united than Republicans when it comes to policy, ideology and public debate.