Ana Kasparian Quotes

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

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

It has become a cliché that voters no longer choose their legislators. The legislators choose their voters.

Hillary Clinton's loss has exposed the lack of Democratic power in this country at all levels.

As Democrats, when we try to determine who or what allowed Donald Trump to become president, we should look in the mirror.

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

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

As a matter of fact I don't like politics. I really don't. I think it's so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line.

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.

National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.

Politics disgusts me.

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.

Minority candidates continue to overwhelmingly support Democratic candidates. As long as that is the case, the Republican National Committee, and other Republican groups, may be tempted to keep minority voters from casting their ballots, especially in light of the razor thin margins of victory by which many elections have been decided in recent years.

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.

American presidential elections usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the rise of Trump.

Politicians have made people cry... politics has become a circus.

Conservatives watch Fox News and read 'Breitbart.' Liberals watch MSNBC and read 'HuffPost.' When we agree, it's the truth; when we differ, it's fake news.

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.

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

It tends to be overlooked that many people are indirectly affected by thoughtless and cruel journalism.

I made the argument that every growing demographic in this country - nonwhite voters, younger people - is trending Democratic. It's a ticking time bomb for the GOP. That's why I felt safe in saying that 'Republicans have no hope of making serious inroads into Democratic advantages in 2010 or likely 2012 or 2014 and so on.'