Incumbency adds a layer of advantage on top of this party dominance. But rather than foster an environment in which members of Congress feel free to buck popular sentiment and wrestle seriously with the problems confronting the country, it reinforces the ideological divide between the parties

The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized

Great wits are near to madness, closely allied and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

You’ve got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.

They cannot divide us by saying that you’re middle class or you’re lower class.

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims

There is nothing more divine than to be free.

Know, Nature’s children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch, warmed a bear

Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions sense from thought divide

Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you. Find yourself.

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical
equation stands forever.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.