Molly Ivins Quotes

This country was seriously divided.

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

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Each side had its uninformed fanatics. And each side had political leaders who fanned the flames with their rhetoric.

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

It is uncomfortable seeing how very divisive politics has become.

Brexit has divided the country. It has divided political parties. And it has divided families too.

People are so quick to demonize and stereotype those on the other side that they often say that it's impossible to work with people on the other side.

In America, we're in a divided country.

America is a divided country; we have always been a divided country, but even more divided now, thanks to Trump and a lot of other things, as well.

I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

I think America has always been polarized.

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

I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.

There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.

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

Polarized positions are an indulgence which … the nation cannot afford.

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 ….

Pat Buchanan likes to say we're in a culture war. The Civil War was a culture war, and brothers killed brothers. I wonder if they avoided dinner conversation about politics. What if this culture war turned into a real war? I'd look back on that dinner and wish that I'd ordered a side of argument

… when the one side says black and the other white, when the opposite political characters are treated by their respective antagonists as rogues, fools, blockheads, wretches, and all the other names in which the English political dictionary is so very rich, one stands like the ass, between two bundles of hay, considerably embarrassed which ought to be chosen....

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

I don't want to engage in politics; it's too hot.

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

Partisanship has gotten worse and worse.