Margarita Simonyan Quotes

There are so many families that are divided by Fox and Trump. I think a lot of people have been surprised by just how deep and how corrupt the roots are - how there's been collusion between Fox and Trump right in plain sight the whole time, and yet it's not often recognized.

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

The press has a tendency to focus on what politicians disagree on.

In American politics, the deepest rivalry is between the rational world and the right wing of the GOP, who are increasingly marginalized in their view that America cannot take on the big challenges.

I wish the American public wasn't so stupid if they realized that half the people on television make a living just to insult the other party.

Trump has taken it to a new level. He is now viewing the media as the 'opposition party,' in his own words. Consequently, media coverage of Trump has become that much more significant.

I'm used to the Right being singled out by the entertainers.

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?'

People are tired of the politics of Donald Trump. l really do believe that.

It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.

Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists.

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he's going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes.

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.

Maybe it is the media that has us divided.

The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.

It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'