Polarization Quotes

“I think cable news has become too much of an echo chamber.”

“A deliberating group is likely to end up with a more extreme position than the one it started with.”

“The biggest problem we have in this country is the polarization of politics.”

“The problem is not that people are polarized. The problem is that the system is.”

“The Republican Party has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”

“Dysfunction is rooted in a fundamental mismatch between our political parties, which have become ideologically polarized, and our political institutions, which are not designed for a parliamentary-style party system.”

“Both sides are not equally to blame for the current state of American politics.”

“I think it's important that we have a conversation in this country about the polarization of our politics.”

“Partisanship is our great national addiction.”

“I regret that I became a public symbol of a decade of polarization.”

“Echo chambers and filter bubbles can lead to a society that is more divided and less able to engage in productive disagreement.”