Top 63 Chris Hayes Quotes
#1. It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.
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#2. Islam does not preach hatred and violence and destruction.
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#3. Politics is more than policy, right. Like, one thing that has occurred to me is Bernie Sanders is clearly a very adept and able politician, right. But he spent 30 years being a very adept and able politician in an almost entirely white state.
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#4. I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.
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#5. Depending on who you are, the sight of an officer can produce either a warm sense of safety and contentment or a plummeting feeling of terror. I've
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#6. Donald Trump said it was his idea for [Sarah] Palin to bring up her son at the rally.
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#7. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz did their best Donald Trump impersonation. All three unleashing an unprecedented string of insults and attacks fit more for a barroom than a presidential debate stage.
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#8. The knock on [Chris] Christie was always the I guy that he was - I felt inordinately talented politician, a smart and in some ways very capable human being, with a personality given toward authoritarianism and bullying and ethical corner-cutting.
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#9. The base that Donald Trump is speaking to are not that conservative, at least not the way conservatives have defined themselves.
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#10. My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
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#11. I give so much credit to the 'Up' team who created appointment viewing on the weekends for us and some of the smartest conversations on television.
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#13. I think you'll see if you look at 'Up', we've focused a lot on labor (and the forces trying to keep labor down) and have featured everything from Wal Mart workers, to on-the-ground organizers, to union presidents to restaurant workers sitting at the table sharing their experience and expertise.
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#14. Tens of millions of dollars spent, all meant to get Jeb Bush elected president. He currently is polling on average at around 5%.
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#15. Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down.
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#16. Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.
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#17. That has to come to an end and end now. No citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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#18. My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.
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#19. When you think about the current present value of the fossil fuel reserves that are on the books, the current fossil fuel companies, the last time that that much wealth was at stake was when the South fought the Civil War,
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#20. Presented with a challenge to its power, an illegitimate regime will often overreact, driven by the knowledge that all they have is force.
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#21. Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want.
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#22. For years, right wing outlets like outlets like Fox News and talk radio have been telling their audience day after day that any information coming from outside of conservative media is not to be trusted.
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#23. The New York Times and Politico report , as Bush continues to flounder on the campaign trail, backers are placing some of the blame on Right To Rise and its inability to sell their candidate.
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#24. Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.
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#25. The [Sarah ]Palin endorsement as sort of vouching for Donald Trump is all about. She is the sort of tribune of not conservatism as ideology.
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#26. David Frum has been saying - [Donald] Trump is all about conservatism as identity, not conservatism as ideology.
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#27. Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'
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#28. I think I was a militant smoker, and I felt hemmed in by a wall of political correctness and I think I purposely and militantly put the smoking scenes in the movies.
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#29. The mood, it is fair to say, was reasonably tense. As a result of the conclusion of the ballot, most members are happy that this matter has now been determined.
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#30. My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'
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#31. Impossible is a word for other people to use when life scares them.
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#32. Screenwriting Joe Eszterhas have always talked about the charm of evil.
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#33. As one [Jeb] Bush supporter told Politico, you might as well light all of this money [for election compaign] on fire.
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#34. I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.
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#35. Donald Trump got himself very far to the left. When he was considering running for president in 2000, he was for a 13 percent wealth tax on wealthy people to retire the national debt.
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#36. The NYPD with the unconditional support of Mayor Michael Bloomberg has stopped-and-frisked more black men than there are black men in New York City. Institutionalized racial discrimination in the United States is alive and well.
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#37. Obviously it's easier to grow faster when you are a less developed country than when you are where the U.S. is.
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#38. What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise.
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#39. I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.
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#40. I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.
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#41. There's no real organised body, ... so through the internet people have spread their videos, spread photos, and spread word of a new urban movement.
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#42. Order is a slippery thing: it's in the eyes of the beholder and the judgments of the powerful. Safety is clearer: it's freedom from violence and intrusion.
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#43. What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.
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#44. Meritocracy is our social ideal, particularly among good liberals. Equality of opportunity, but not of outcome. Not evaluating people by their [outside] features, but by their innate talent and drive.
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#45. The thing with that word "establishment" is a four-letter word in the 2016 politics, so toxic, so pejorative that pretty much no one wants to be associated with it.
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#47. The Republican Party is officially a dumpster fire.
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#48. Why Hollywood has killed so many movie stars with cigarette smoking, with the romanticization of it from John Wayne to Humphrey Bogart, all those people had cancer, died of it, and sold cigarettes their whole career.
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#49. It is genuinely shocking to me that I'm on a television show.
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#50. And in America, when the state cultivates such fear among relatively empowered white voters, it is enriching uranium for a political nuclear weapon. It
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#51. Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.
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#52. White nationalist, white supremacis feel like this is a watershed moment in the history of white supremacy in which something that had been cordoned off to the kind of white supremacist back waters, an idea like banning all Muslims from coming to the country is going to be .
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#53. We were arguing about what was good to deal with making education fairer, diverse and more American. We were not arguing about where black scientists get a good education.
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#54. If someone were to say, we should not letting Jews into the country, and people had a reaction against that, would that be the same thing as that kind of toxic political correctness tamping down honest discussion?
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#55. some weed here and there, but for the most part people were just partying.
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#56. One of the main points of the philosophy behind parkour is being able to help people ... To teach them they way themselves, to gain confidence in themselves, building up from simple moves to more complex things, to teach them that they are worthwhile people.
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#58. If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.
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#59. The thing they're trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That's the substance.
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#60. Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.
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#61. Because we [the USA] are so powerful, our failures resonate more. In some ways, the worst victims of our institutional and elite failures, through the ripple effect of financial crisis and war, aren't Americans.
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#62. After a battle royale debate, the fight between [Marco]Rubio and [Donald]Trump gets ugly.
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#63. I've written a lot of movies with smoking, and the some of those movies absolutely gloried in the smoking and I wasn't concerned when I wrote them who would see them and how those movies would especially affect young people.
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