Tim Kaine Quotes

In America, we're in a divided country.

I don't think things are getting more insane. I do know that the country is more divided than it's ever been. Tensions in America are at their peak.

In America, we have a bifurcated country, we have a polarized country. One of the reasons I think it's polarized is because of identity politics on the left.

I've been coming to America since 1970, and it's like my second home, but I've never felt such a divided country, ever. I didn't think it would get to this point, and it breaks my heart.

In America, we have a divided nation. We have a very divided nation.

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.

It's an interesting place to begin where the country is completely divided into choosing sides, when the only side everyone should be choosing is the side of America, and then politicians essentially should be arguing about the best way to serve America.

In America, we had a totally divided country for eight years and long before that. In all fairness to President Obama, long before President Obama we have had a very divided - I didn't come along and divide this country. This country was seriously divided before I got here.

I think America has always been polarized.

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.

From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.

Members of Congress don’t speak to their colleagues any more. They talk to the national audience.

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.

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...

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

I like having a battleground district because I think that's real-life America.

We are not, in some fundamental ways, a single country. The map of that vast red swatch of states and rural counties that voted for Trump, and the blue coastal edges and scattered urban centers where Clinton won, are a pictograph of mutual contempt.

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

I think the thing with 'Rise Up,' something that really does bug me, is that America has become very divided.

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

God, America is a country predicated on listening to everybody. When did we stop listening to one another?

America, fortunately or unfortunately, is very polarized right now. People fall into their different camps. And people are, are concerned. And they, they want to see change.

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

This country was seriously divided.