The full quote is "I can't stand the word empathy. I think empathy is a made up new age term and it does a lot of damage. Sympathy is a better word, because empathy means you are actually feeling what another person felt, and no one can feel what another person feels."
He was talking about how the democrats use language
I disagreed with the guy on a great many things, but cutting his clips out of context like this is pathetic.