Joel Osteen Quotes
Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you're not called to do it, you're dividing the audience you're trying to reach.
Osteen, Joel. Interview by Chris Wallace. Fox News Sunday, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2007.
Partisanship and culture wars had reached an extreme point at that time. Even words like “balance” and “moderation” had become anathema to some of the extremists.
Gingrich, a hyper partisan politician who himself was a polarizing figure himself, considered any objective that might gain any partisan advantage at all. Once he actually shut down the government by not appropriating any money in the House to embarrass President Clinton, but this backfired and thereafter Gingrich was pushed out of Congress by his own party.
Joel Scott Osteen is an American pastor, televangelist, businessman and author, based in Houston, Texas. As of 2018, Osteen's televised sermons were seen by approximately 10 million viewers in the US and several million more in over 100 countries weekly. Osteen has also written several best-selling books.
