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The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.

Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.

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

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

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession.

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

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

There's peacetime and there's wartime, and you don't need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues.

During the election of Washington's successor, it became apparent that the country was sharply divided and that the dissatisfaction with Federalist policies was deep and fervent.