Fiona Bruce Quotes

Palin, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others have made an art form of convincing far too many Americans to suspend their disbelief, and they have severely damaged the ability of our country to have serious discussions about serious challenges.

You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.

I watch some CNN and a lot of Fox, because it helps me get irritated.

Public opinion can become polarized into a bimodal distribution with only a few people in the center and many more lying toward the extremes. But under such circumstances, democracy will probably break down …

I don't want to engage in politics; it's too hot.

We have seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty. At times, it can seem like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together. Argument turns too easily into animosity. Disagreement escalates into dehumanization. Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.

Some people believe giving more people a voice is driving division rather than bringing us together. More people across the spectrum believe that achieving the political outcomes they think matter is more important than every person having a voice.

It kills me to hear Donald Trump talking.

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

The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it.

When liberals dismiss all Trump supporters as racists, this only fuels their anger.

I don't believe just because you're a conservative that you're angry.

I happen to think Donald Trump is crazy, but that's not an economic message.

Political culture has become popular culture.

In the age of Trump, we need to be aware of emotional rhetoric and its power regardless of whether or not it's based in fact.

I don't think what you hear on talk radio is representative of America.

The media will not admit that Trump's America and Sanders' America are as different as Venus and Mars: they represent a very polarized America with two different answers to the question, 'Who are we?'

I don't really get into that whole red-blue-conservative-liberal because I can't tell them apart. They all seem inept. So, for me, it's not something I focus on at all. I probably should be more political than I am. I just don't care.

Here's the problem with talking about who I voted for. If I say I voted for Romney, then everybody's like, 'Of course.' If I say I voted for Obama, everybody's like, 'Of course.' And then I'm no longer the guy you can't figure out.

The best thing, on 'Question Time,' is when the reality confronts the rhetoric.

When you see celebrities say, 'I hope the economy bottoms out to get rid of Trump,' I think that helps Trump.

I don't think I suffer from Trump derangement syndrome in a sense that I can separate the man from the White House.

I don't like the whole 'slander, slander' conversation that most political debates are these days. So I tend to keep my political standpoint not to myself, but just relatively private.

These days, those who criticize the Union government are being labelled as anti-BJP and those praise it as BJP supporters. Isn't there any middle path?

I get asked that almost every day, but I've been saying the same thing... I'm not going to take any more stupid questions about Donald Trump. It's not what I focus on every day.