George Takei Quotes

Partisanship may be King in Washington - but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute.

I'm always suspicious of politics dividing people instead of bringing them together.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Disunity costs votes.

We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.

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

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

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

We aren't as divided as we think we are. We're not just Republicans sitting in one corner, and Democrats sitting in the other corner.

The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided?

I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.

Incivility is not the disease. It is the symptom. Partisanship is the disease…. When your highest duty is to your party, the public interest becomes subservient.

By definition, politics is, or ought to be, division.

Religion should be a bridge to unite us and not a wedge to divide us politically.

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.

The people are fed up with politics and partisanship.

There are some in Congress who would rather see their opponents lose than see their country win. That has got to stop…. They must find a way to put country ahead of party.

We have seen in Washington the worst kind of partisanship, the worst kind of gridlock. There is nothing wrong with our country. There is much wrong with our politics ….

…to make a commonwealth is to divide it into parties, which setteth them at perpetual variance, the one party endeavouring to preserve their eminence and inequality, and the other to attain their equality.

The things that divide us in politics are infinitesimal compared with the dignity of our common humanity.

Some people believe giving more people a voice is driving division rather than bringing us together. More people across the spectrum believe that achieving the political outcomes they think matter is more important than every person having a voice.

A thing that really troubles me about a more polarized society is that you stop having a sense of society and citizenship.

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

I want to figure out how we put California and America back on track - how we bridge this partisan divide that is so polarizing.

I think a lot of folks are beginning to feel that the forces that are tearing us apart in this country are stronger than the forces that tie us together. I don't believe that.