Polarizing Quotes

• Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

  Larry Sabato

  Party, President, Structure

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

  Yousef Munayyer

  Media, Usa, President

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• I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get it at all. It's not accessible to all people at the same level.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Thinking, People

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• As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, War, Soul

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• The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Sodium, Vapour, Rotation

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• I don't think good and evil are polarized.

  Sam Mendes

  Thinking, Evil, Good And Evil

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• Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.

  Spencer Bachus

  Views, America, Issues

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• I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.

  Joichi Ito

  Moving, Communication, Trying

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• There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

  Brad Henry

  Too Much, Surrender, Polarization

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• In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Party, Two, Political

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• From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.

  N. T. Wright

  Two, America, Issues

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• I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Grateful, Moon

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 09, 2012

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• Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

  Emily Oster

  Talking, Birth

  "'Expecting Better' pregnancy advice" by Emily Oster, www.cnn.com. August 28, 2013.

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• I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our society; those who fight to identify and strengthen human connections, and defeat polarizing forces that strain to drive us apart.

  Shana Alexander

  Struggle, Fighting, Snakes

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

  Laura Ingraham

  Thinking, Usa, People

  "Laura Ingraham Throws Down With Matt Lauer on Today". "TODAY" with Matt Lauer, www.newsbusters.org. March 29, 2010.

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• When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.

  Molly Ivins

  Country, Winning, Talking

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.141, Vintage

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• I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have more home-grown energy, be less reliant on foreign oil when you look at our health care that we're trying to get more affordable health care, that these are going to create major debates in this country and be somewhat polarizing.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Country, Home, Thinking

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• I love polarizing people.

  Josh Gad

  People

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• Great art comes from great artists. There’s a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn’t have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.

  Kanye West

  Art, Hurt, People

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• A polarizing mission statement forces the reader to choose between two sides of a line drawn in the sand. Rare is the business owner who has the courage to craft such a statement.

  Roy H. Williams

  Two Sides, Crafts, Lines

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• Music should always be polarizing. What one person likes, somebody else hates. And I hate that kind of snobbery in pop music. The fact that so many people are getting upset over this one song is hysterical. And if people like it, that's great.

  Simon Cowell

  Song, Hate, People

  "Simon Cowell Thinks Rebecca Black Has The X Factor!". Interview with Cosmo Girl, www.seventeen.com. April 11, 2011.

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• The thing I like about the sci-fi genre is that you get to examine universal themes and polarizing moral choices. The characters have a lot on their shoulders and are often trying to survive in some very difficult and hostile environments.

  Jaime Murray

  Character, Genre Is, Choices

  "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.

  Harrison Ford

  Issues, Political, Environment

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• We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is - on the brink of catastrophe - torn by polarizing hate, and how it's a shame that we can't work together to get things done, but the truth is we do. We work together to get things done every damn day!

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Hate, Working Together

  Keynote Address at the Rally to Restore Sanity, delivered 30 October 2010, Washington Mall

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• Our politics is very masculine, very aggressive, and it's very polarizing. And the pace of this development has increased in recent years. Erdogan is, in my eyes, the most polarizing politician in recent Turkish political history.

  Elif Safak

  Eye, Years, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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