The decline in political civility (Obama)
June 26th, 2008 | Published in Quotes, Culture, Politics
At least some of the decline in [political] civility arises from the fact that, from the press’s perspective, civility is boring. Your quote doesn’t run if you say, “I see the other guy’s point of view” or “The issue’s really complicated.” Go on the attack, though, and you can barely fight off the cameras.
—Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope (2006), p. 126