Greg Berlanti Quotes

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

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.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush.

Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out.

My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.

I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.

I can't go out with a Republican.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.

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.

I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

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