Kurt Eichenwald Quotes

You're either on team Republican or team Democrat, and it's the idea that one of these sides has a perfect record of being correct and is worth supporting on 100% of the causes. I find that kind of thinking extremely dangerous and very intellectually dishonest.

People of a certain political view tend to read material of only that point of view … except to cast contempt on the other points of view.

The Tea Party people are ideologues. They are right, and no one can change their minds. There is no reason for compromise.

I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.

The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.

Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's politics of personal destruction when it came to smearing elected officials. 'Fair game,' they said, even when crass and crude. That's just the way it is.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

Politicians are trapped in their own views.

George W. Bush … was ideologically obsessed.

In an ideological, polarized political environment, people see the reality that they want to see.

We not only want to believe that our party is superior to the opposing party, but also we want to believe that we are justified in believing this to be true.

I don’t care for ideological people. It’s like those people just want to stop thinking.

We are so ready to find evidence agaist our political opponents that it snuffs out our charity and possible doubt.

The political Right is particularly vehement when it comes to compromise. Conservatives are now strongly swayed by the Tea Party movement, whose clarion call is a refusal to compromise regardless of the practical consequences.

Progressives and conservatives alike lean, unconsciously, towards particular conclusions, and then scrabble around to rationalise those conclusions to themselves.

Research shows that if people are talking and listening to like-minded others, they become more dogmatic, more unified, and more extreme. Personalized Facebook experiences are a breeding ground for misunderstanding and miscommunication across political lines and, ultimately, for extremism.

This is in us: a certain sense of denial, a certain sense of groupthink. This is not something that sits on one party line or the other. We've seen it in all permutations throughout history, and at the core of it is a certain insistence that what we want to be true is now true, and what we don't like is now false.

When your worldview is challenged, you'd be surprised how quickly you can find a way to dismiss reality.

The party where humorless thought police work to enforce a rigid ideological discipline isn't made up of Democrats. It comprises Republicans.

The second the news comes on TV, people turn it off or tune it out. People don't want to hear the other side.

People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.