James Cleverly Quotes

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

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.

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

We don't know each other. Democrats don't know Republicans, Republicans don't know Democrats.

Since my adolescence, divisive politics has bothered me.

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 president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided?

We've become so polarized we've become paralyzed.

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

The political scenario has gotten so divisive - not only in Washington, D.C., but across the country, too.

Politics is, by its nature, not my favorite thing because it's more about dividing people, not bringing them together.

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

Donald Trump is a divisive name in a locker room.

If you're going to talk about politics, then there are going to be folks who are with you and folks that are against you.

It's a bit unfair to accuse Obama of dividing the nation when the facts show that it already is.

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.

Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.

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.

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

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.

The press has a tendency to focus on what politicians disagree on.

There is nothing I dread so much as a division of the Republic into two great political parties, each arranged under its leader and converting measures in opposition to each other.

In politics you win by division.

There used to be a civility. Today, members of Congress would rather destroy another member than compromise.

The tone is toxic here in Washington and we are exporting it around the country.