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

— Larry J. Sabato

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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

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

— Lady Gaga

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If you're not polarizing, you failed, in my opinion. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

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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

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I've always felt that if something is polarizing, that's usually the stuff I like the most. If something is taking a chance and is willing to be weird, that's my favorite thing. I know there's somebody out there who hates it. ↗

— Andy Samberg

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

— Yousef Munayyer

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But for a younger generation of conservative operatives who would soon rise to power... They were true believers who meant what they said, whether it was 'No New Taxes' or 'We are a Christian Nation.' In fact, with their rigid doctrines, slash-and-burn style, and exaggerated sense of having been aggrieved, this new conservative leadership was eerily reminiscent of some of the New Left's leaders during the sixties. As with their left-wing counterparts, this new vanguard of the right viewed politics as a contest not just between competing policy visions, but between good and evil. Activists in both parties began developing litmus tests, checklists of orthodoxy, leaving a Democrat who questioned abortion increasingly lonely, any Republican who championed gun control effectively marooned. In this Manichean struggle, compromise came to look like weakness, to be punished or purged. You were with us or you were against us. You had to choose sides. ↗

— Barack Obama

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