Haley Barbour Quotes

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.

Many newspapers have become players as well as spectators in the political debate.

Donald Trump is a divisive name in a locker room.

It is uncomfortable seeing how very divisive politics has become.

Since my adolescence, divisive politics has bothered me.

President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is.

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

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.

I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.

I regard many of the neoconservatives as personal friends, but that's not stopped them from behaving with extraordinary viciousness towards those of us who raised the immigration issue.

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican 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.

By definition, politics is, or ought to be, division.

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

We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.

Our job is to bash the President.

I don't think that this should be politicized. But this is probably naive. In this environment, everything gets politicized.

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

The media will not admit that Trump's America and Sanders' America are as different as Venus and Mars: they represent a very polarized America with two different answers to the question, 'Who are we?'

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

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

I think politics is always about dialogue. I think journalism ranges from dialogue to monologue, and there are times when different poles are necessary.