Mark Udall Quotes

I am the ism, my hate's a prism.

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.

The government wants to be able to attack extremism and hatred wherever it occurs.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the middle.

Democrats like [Congressman Jared] Polis want to bankrupt Christians who refuse to worship and endorse his sodomy. Next he’ll join ISIS in beheading Christians, but not just in Syria, right here in America.

Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.

We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.

Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.

In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence.

What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.

It is necessary to name the enemy of human civilization, and this enemy is international terrorism associated with religious fundamentalism and religious intolerance.

Ideological amplification happens when like minded people deliberate…they push each other to extreme points of views….The argument pool in a group of liberals will be only liberal. Likewise with conservatives, the other way…. Most of us on most issues do not have a ton of information…we might be steered away from moderation…. Political correctness is a good example of ideological amplification.

Muslims are like wild dogs. You can't deal with them, you can only kill them.

Extremist thought is about to overwhelm the world.

Our friend, Mr Hume, made a most violent speech at a dinner … last week. He called Sir R. Peel and some other Tories "the cloven foot," which I think rather strong. I think that great violence and striving such a pity, on both sides … They irritate one another so uselessly by calling one another fools, blockheads, liars, and so forth for no purpose. I think violence so bad in everything.

For every Farrakhan who riles and poisons black America, there are twenty white bigots who seek to take us into organized murder and mayhem.

Unless Gingrich and Dole and the Republicans say, ‘Am I inflaming a bunch of nuts?’, you know we're going to have some more events (like the Oklahoma City bombing). I am absolutely certain the harsher rhetoric of the Gingriches and the Doles … creates a climate of violence in America.

Islam is a malignant cancer.

I am glad to be labeled anti-Semitic.

Donald Trump tests the limits of campaign speech. He makes false statements and refuses to correct them. He attacks other religions and ethnic groups, inflaming domestic tension and foreign terrorist rage.

Setting aside moral considerations, those who flirt with hate speech against Muslims should realize they are playing directly into the hands of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. The terrorists' explicit hope has been to try to provoke a clash of civilizations - telling Muslims that the United States is at war with them and their religion.

The unfortunate reality is the alt-right has captured white people's imagination.