S.E. Cupp Quotes

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.

What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game.

I have never seen American politics so divisive…. We can’t have Congressman not voting for things America needs because it is not popular in their district. We have to put America first.

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

I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.

Whether you are liberal or conservative, people seem to know the talking points for whatever the issue of the day is. Very rarely does it seem like these are opinions that people are coming up with themselves; it's like they watched the right cable news channel, and now they know what they are supposed to think, and they repeat that.

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it.

Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.

It's a sad commentary on where politics is today. If someone disagrees with you, you're either Attila the Hun or a leftist liberal.

I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

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

When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.

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

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

American politics shows again and again that the best explanation is an accusation.

The polarization of American politics is the proximate cause of the ongoing budget deficit…. Lately, the ideological center in Congress has thinned, and the distance between the parties has widened. Compromise has come to be seen as surrender—and the U. S. Government has all but come to a halt.

The media increase the political nastiness while distancing voters from those clashes. Citizens become spectators. ­Headline-­driven news emphasizes the extremes, the fights, the hysteria, the sensational. Political reporters, trying to appear objective by quoting two opposing sides to almost every story, mostly sharpen the differences, slighting any centrist position.

Conservatives literally view it as a kind of a weakness to talk to people other than their own. Nothing would bore me more than to sit around talking and listening to a bunch of liberals all day.

I'm sick and tired of only being asked about everything that Donald Trump says or does.

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.

If Democrats don't go on Fox News, it doesn't mean that people stop watching.

The politics of division are not what we want in New Jersey and Virginia and elsewhere.