Divisive Issue Quotes

There are those who believe in my innocence and those who believe in my guilt. There is no in-between.

There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken.

I'm as pro-life as a person gets. You're not going to have a truce.

Unfortunately, most gun control advocates are not really interested in rational debate, and their political games simply send Alice chasing white rabbits down holes.

The problem with the immigration debate, it's probably is the most poisoned and political debate of any issue, because you have this huge voting bloc that everybody says is yours

I love polarizing people.

In talking with affirmative-action administrators and with blacks and whites in general, I found that supporters of affirmative action focus on its good intentions and detractors emphasize its negative effects. It was virtually impossible to find people outside either camp.

I support lowering the level of legal immigration by a moderate amount at this time. Legal immigration reform must be based upon principles that are pro-family, pro-work, and pro-naturalization, retaining opportunities for family reunification as the levels are lowered. We must not let this issue become divisive in this country.

In some ways, backing the Trump campaign was even harder than battling for Brexit. I received almost total condemnation, including from many senior figures in my own party.

The issue of immigration is one of the most complex and politically difficult issues because there is so much passion on all sides.

This is the one issue [the death penalty] that I have received more advice about than any issue in 35 years of public life…. Whatever I decide, one side or the other will not accept it.

The U.K. decided to leave the E.U. - Brexit means Brexit.

Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.

It [debate over abortion] has the ability to dominate things so much that you can't do anything else.

From my point of view, the Dreyfus affair is most interesting because it was sparked by a single cause celebre. Just one court case - one disputed trial - plunged an entire country into an angry debate, creating unresolvable divisions between people who had previously not known that they disagreed with one another.

The controlling Justices in Casey went so far as to make an essentially political plea that Americans let their ruling settle the abortion issue. It was a futile attempt to end debate on a question that touches people at their deepest moral convictions. Abortion continues to roil American politics, and states continue to pass laws challenging the logic of both opinions. When a ruling is still controversial and unworkable after five decades, that is compelling evidence it was wrongly decided.

Brexit can tend to be a dialogue of the deaf.

This country was fine in my opinion before Brexit, so let's all settle down.

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

We must find a credible route through Brexit to build a better country and go forward together.

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

Someday, when I'm no longer around, they will call at the Trump wall. It's got to be the greatest wall.

The closer we come to the Greek tragedy that is Brexit, the more horrifying it is to behold.

For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.

I was strongly against Brexit. I speechified against Brexit.