Matt Taibbi Quotes

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

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.

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

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.

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

Partisanship has gotten worse and worse.

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

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.

When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.

Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.

I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

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.

South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.

The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.

When you see John Boehner crying, believe you me, it's because he cannot control, uh, that wild contingency called the Tea Party.

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.

Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.