Joy Reid Quotes

What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.

If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard for Red America to recognize that many minorities are legitimately worried about what a Trump presidency means for their family.

When we simply write a place off as, like, 'Well, it's just Trump country,' for the people who are there, we do them a disservice on some level. It's their country, too.

You know, boy, America is a closely divided country.

Trump is, to some extent, redefining what we think of as polarization in this country. Where polarization has been seen as ideological, it is now being seen almost as behavioral.

I'm telling you, the disconnect is big, and the gap of understanding between the people in Washington, in news media, the New York/Boston/Washington corridor and the rest of the country, that gap is widening.

When God created Republicans, he gave up on everything else.

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

Politics has become a little like football. We cheer for our favorite team no matter how well they are playing.

We’ve got the liberal bastards on the run, and we’re going to keep them on the run.

Democrats cluster in cities, and Republicans don't.

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.

We're movers, forward thinkers, people who get things done. But the Tea Party and Republicans like Bob Dold are holding us back.

Hollywood does not understand Middle America, and it certainly does not understand and, in fact, despises, the core values of the country.

I'm not sure the people who are voting for Trump want to be pulled together with the people who are voting for Clinton and vice versa.

We're all tired of a Washington that has these partisan camps where nothing gets done.

The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.

Not everybody who supports Donald Trump, not everyone who supports Hilary Clinton, are exactly the kind of people that you want as supporters.

For years Pelosi has been the ultimate Republican boogeyman - or boogeywoman, as it were. She's a frequent target of Republican ire for being too far to the left - and she's also a target among progressives for not being far left enough.

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?

I'm used to the Right being singled out by the entertainers.

I've had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress.

I am basically a supporter of Barack Obama - it is not easy to be a post-partisan president in a hyper-partisan era.

People love to talk about the old bipartisanship. But it wasn't really bipartisanship. Yeah, they had a different label. But they're replaced now by people with basically the same views.

There is so much partisan and tribal politics, from not just those seeking office but potential voters as well, that we never get real attempts at solutions to problems.