John Avlon Quotes

The far-right and far-left can be equally insane.

If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.

Professional partisans are still playing politics by industrial-age rules. They haven’t woken up to the information-age reality. Younger generations have grown up with a multiplicity of choice on every front, which can be tailored to suit their individual beliefs. Politics is the last place where we are supposed to be satisfied with a choice between Brand A and Brand B.

Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1.

Demagogues always do well in economic downturns.

Extremes are ultimately their own side's worst enemy.

Us and against them is the opposite of our national motto, e pluribus unum: Out of many, one.

Semi-obvious but bears repeating: Much of the evil in the world comes from seeing and judging people as members of groups rather than individuals.

Politics is history in the present tense.

The independence of our nation is inseparable from our interdependence as a people.

America is both North and South, White and Black, Republican and Democrat. We are laughter and loss, Saturday night and Sunday morning, Old Testament and New. Liberty and equality are not opposites in inevitable conflict, but act in concert under the practical balance of the Union. In the end, even war and peace are intimately entwined.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.