Benny Gantz Quotes

It is uncomfortable seeing how very divisive politics has become.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

It's about polarization. You're trying to stir up something in your audience.

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

We did not seek ideological confrontation.

Politics is a highly tribal business.

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

In politics you win by division.

I don't object to polarization if it achieves an objective.

People at the political extremes have an advantage over the rest of us. Only they seem to know exactly who and what is wrong with America and precisely what policies and programs should be adopted to fix it.

We've become so polarized we've become paralyzed.

We don't know each other. Democrats don't know Republicans, Republicans don't know Democrats.

I think partisanship is probably the greatest problem in Washington, D.C.

Unfortunately, our country has become so politically polarized that one side routinely attempts to destroy and discredit the other.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

It's a bit unfair to accuse Obama of dividing the nation when the facts show that it already is.

Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

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.

I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic.