Polarizing Figure Quotes

Donald Trump is somebody who I think likes to mix it up and to have a vigorous debate.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Pat Buchanan is a … crazed Davy Crockett running around the parapets of Nixon’s Alamo.

I've never wanted to be a person where somebody would be like, 'I like her; she's okay.' Love or hate is fine, because it sells tickets.

Throughout my political life, I've not been a stranger to controversy.

Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

Seems like we were always running away from President Obama or trying to undo what he's done.

America can't stop talking about Donald Trump. Even if we want to look away, we just can't.

As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many.

Jesse Helms has never been an invincible man.

George W. Bush has dutifully, if not intentionally, provided Americans with laughs for nearly a decade. He has also made them cry, sometimes for the same reason.

There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.

Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you're likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion - hot and cold, good and bad. Not a lot of neutral reaction. He was elected in the most controversial contest in American electoral history and governed during one of the most tumultuous decades.

Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

You had to stand in line to hate him.

Yeah, President-elect Trump is many things. To his voters, he's a beloved figure. But one of the things he is, is a conspiracy theorist.

Simply put, a Trump presidency is unthinkable.

The thing about Donald Trump, he is a different candidate.

[Senator Roscoe Conkling is:] A great fighter, inspired more by his hates than his loves.

There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison, and other people just hate him regular.

Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.

Bill Clinton is a person who causes a lot of passion both ways about people, and there's certainly a lot of turmoil if you look back at the eight years. But there was a lot of good, too.

Palin may be a polarizing figure, but she's more than just a 'political personality.'

Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.