Van Jones Quotes

Since my adolescence, divisive politics has bothered me.

The best way to get your audience larger and more consistent is to be more divisive and more radical and criticize those who cater to or kowtow to other forces.

People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.

If you're not offending one group of people, you're not entertaining the other.

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

I would like to caution you about the use of the word “balance.” …. It a red-hot word that is divisive.

The tone is toxic here in Washington and we are exporting it around the country.

Divisiveness is the only thing that sells today. Comity dies not sell. Civility does not sell.

A standard criticism that is always made by the opponents of justice of the proponents of justice is that the proponents are divisive.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say... It's like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They're all opinions.

We've been polarizing for different reasons. For one thing, my voice is very polarizing. It sits in this place that either appeals to people or really puts people off. I can understand that.

Partisanship has gotten worse and worse.

Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people.

The political scenario has gotten so divisive - not only in Washington, D.C., but across the country, too.

We elected Donald J. Trump to keep us jittery and entertained. He's delivered.

Everybody tries to take a tragedy and turn it to their own political purposes, and it's both sides.

A famous man once said, 'A sure formula for failure is to try and please everyone.' Some might say I built a career on doing just the opposite of pleasing everyone.

Donald Trump is a divisive name in a locker room.

The most important virtue in politics was once thought to be likeability. But in Corbyn, dislikeable was king. Actually, dislikeability reached its apotheosis in Donald Trump, who exhibited sourness, truculence and negativity in every step and tweet.

I think Donald Trump is a very unique candidate.

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

Hollywood is very divisive.

Every time you work on a political campaign, half the people hate you. That's how it is.

You can't please everybody, right? Some people are supporters. Some people are against you.

There are people who hate me, there are people who like me, and they're both right. I think people hate me for the right reasons, which is my politics and what they discern to be my personal attitudes.