Barack Obama Quotes

The label 'liberal' or 'conservative,' any - every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from 'Iolanthe.' It goes, 'Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.' What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

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

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.

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

Most Americans will let liberals and conservatives play their games because most Americans don't pay attention.

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

Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.

In this closely divided nation, it satisfies no practical purpose for the entertainment elite to be identified as so intensely political and utterly one-sided.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

There is nothing I dread so much as a division of the Republic into two great political parties, each arranged under its leader and converting measures in opposition to each other.

Too often on social issues my party has painted an image of America as slouching towards Gomorrah.

If someone agrees with you they're a statesman. If someone disagrees with you, they're a politician.

A liberal is a conservative who's been indicted.

In my opinion, the polarization of our politics has mostly been brought about by the massive infusion of money—mostly spent on negative advertising that create divisions among the population that watches television and the two parties.

These days everything is discussed in terms of political partisan perspective including the weather—especially the weather.

Politics is about divisions. Wherever you come in on the subject, there are divisions.

Partisanship has gotten worse and worse.

If Clinton is elected or if Trump is going to get elected, I think the polarization in Congress will be greater than ever. Nothing is going to get done. It is going to be so ugly, so partisan, so back-biting. Well what if you elect a couple of Libertarians?

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

The art of the compromise, which was the art of politics, is no longer valid. Compromise needs to be between citizens, not between Republicans and Democrats.

It's so easy to trigger everyone these days, especially if you mention President Donald Trump.

You've heard me question whether the partisanship in Washington has made us, as a nation, ungovernable - and, indeed, Democrats are doing their very best to make sure of it.