Divisive Issues Quotes

You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes.

If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.

There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights.

I think you should be able to have a press conference without having reporters key in on certain divisive issues.

Differences between Hindus and Muslims are so fundamental that there is nothing that matters in life upon which we agree.

The old adage that polite conversation should not include talk of politics or religion is understandable because both subjects are so heavily laden with emotion that discussion can quickly turn to shouting. Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.

Early on I learned to question everything. But I feel like everything is so divisive right now. Going against the grain would be to not be divisive and be inclusive. That's the disruptive way to go about it.

Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.

People here may be sharply divided over the Reagan administration's policies—but they admire Ronald Reagan for not getting involved in them.

I will not introduce legislation to reopen divisive issues or to reopen issues that have already been settled by previous governments.

In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding; the really important things are the things about which men will fight.

I find it unnecessary, useless and frankly a bit unnecessary to get into all sorts of debates over President Obama's religion or the authenticity of his birth. I know for some people that it is an obsession. It is not with me.

I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy.

I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.

Well, let's see. There's-of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but...

If you’re an athlete and you tend to be political, you tend to alienate half the public.

We have a problem with dealing with race in our country. We have a problem with dealing with marriage equality and equality in general. These are complex, divisive issues in our society, and I think that the only way we further this conversation is to take them down to a very human scale.

Politics is always a difficult thing to talk about because, like football, the views are radical. You think this way; that guy thinks the opposite way. It is, like, nearly a fight, and feelings are very strong.

There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them.

I don't like to really dive too deep into politics.

That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset someone.

Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.

If our courts lose their authority and their rulings are no longer respected, there will be no one left to resolve the divisive issues that can rip the social fabric apart ... The courts are a safety valve without which no democratic society can survive.

Party politics divides friendships sometimes.

The Republican debate got pretty heated. They spent most of their time arguing over who God called first.