Top 100 Chris Matthews Quotes
#1. We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls.
Michelle Malkin
#2. Just listen to Chris Matthews on any given day and you will see what's acceptable on the Left
Dennis Prager
#3. I watch Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, and Chris Matthews. That's what I watch every night. By the time I've watched them, I don't have time to watch reality TV shows.
Andre Leon Talley
#4. Donald Trump brought up the issue of the birth certificate and it's getting huge buzz around the country. Even Chris Matthews has called for, you know, the birth certificate to be released. Why can't they just release the birth certificate, you know, and just move on?
Sean Hannity
#5. Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this ... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!
Dick Cavett
#6. Presidential Democratic front-runner Howard Dean admitted to Chris Matthews on the 'Hardball' show that he got out of the draft because of a bad back. He had a curvature of the spine. Apparently it curved too far to the left.
Jay Leno
#7. Chris Matthews is so nuts that if he ate a snickers bar it would be cannibalism.
Greg Gutfeld
#8. The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.
Tim Pawlenty
#9. I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.
Peter Jennings
#10. Public opinion aside, it will be up to the future pope to continue John Paul II's journey to sainthood. Many of the late pope's followers believe he is already there.
Chris Matthews
#11. Toastmasters changed my life. They really did. Put me on the stage.
I don't know what I would have done without that positive boost.
Chris Matthews
#12. Someone needs to talk sense to the president. But these people are not world travelers. This president, much as I like him, had all the opportunities in the world.
Chris Matthews
#13. Rush Limbaugh is beginning to look more and more like Mr. Big, and at some point somebody's going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head and he's going to explode like a giant blimp. That day may come. Not yet, but we'll be there to watch.
Chris Matthews
#14. He'd made a name for himself out there in the world beyond not just in spite of the distinctly unfashionable persona he presented, but, perhaps, BECAUSE of it.
Chris Matthews
#15. In the world of late-night comics, Letterman made us feel any hometown boy from Indianapolis could poke fun at celebrities and politicians and do it right to their faces.
Chris Matthews
#16. The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business.
Chris Matthews
#17. [Hillary] Clinton was able to assemble a winning Democratic coalition out here, beating Sanders among African-Americans, women, among women, and voters from union households, so, unions, women, African-Americans.
Chris Matthews
#18. It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank.
Chris Matthews
#19. I care about Roger Sterling, one of the most subtle and amazing characters in dramatic history [Mad men]. This guys who knows precisely who he is, yet leaves us time after time hoping desperately for him to finally grab control of his life and some responsibility for those around him.
Chris Matthews
#20. They were unable to stand up and say: 'Here's our policy. It's Unite the world against terrorism.'
Chris Matthews
#21. The reason I had unfaithfulness in one of my marriages is because I was too patriotic.
Chris Matthews
#22. I had the good fortune of living in Rome for seven years, from 1994 to 2001. So, I kind of saw firsthand the impact that Pope John Paul II had on people.
Chris Matthews
#23. The big lie is that the people who make a lot of money were the only ones that worked hard.
Chris Matthews
#24. The author attributes part of the Carter-Reagan divide to their respective attitudes toward the city from which they governed. Carter was deeply suspicious of its coziness. Reagan intended to enjoy his temporary home even while delivering it from its reigning ideology.
Chris Matthews
#25. I wonder ... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I mean that's what they're selling.
Chris Matthews
#28. In politics there is a large difference between loosing and being defeated.
Chris Matthews
#29. Even if you're not a Catholic, even if you're not a Christian, in fact even if you have no religious faith at all, what people could see in Pope John Paul was a man of true and profound spiritual faith.
Chris Matthews
#30. The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint.
Chris Matthews
#31. I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism.
Chris Matthews
#32. Medicare, getting through that in the '60s, after Kennedy's assassination, where there was such an emotional desire to do something to carry on his agenda.
Chris Matthews
#33. Even the bureaucracy does not shatter the stillness.
Chris Matthews
#34. You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I don't like him and I'm gonna get him, whether you back me or not.'
Chris Matthews
#35. Pope John Paul II is the great. Only two other popes had that title. Does that suggest there is going to be a move for canonization?
Chris Matthews
#36. I think a lot it was the theology, that the road to Jerusalem runs through Baghdad, that somehow if we broke apart the rejectionist states, like Iraq, then the whole Middle East would reconfigure itself into a more favorable environment for democracy and Israel and us.
Chris Matthews
#37. We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely.
Chris Matthews
#38. It's not such a bad idea, at any time, to be seen as FIGHTING, especially when you might just win.
Chris Matthews
#39. People - Hollywood doesn't talk about how bad cigarette smells when it smells like they wake up in bed with somebody who has been smoking the night before.
Chris Matthews
#40. I mean, the idea that Bar could have sent him off on a Grand Tour. But he wasn't the least bit interested. Why? Why isn't he interested in the world? Because here's the bad news for him: He's in the world now.
Chris Matthews
#41. The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan
Chris Matthews
#42. My priority is to see that some people don't suffer for the good of others.
Chris Matthews
#43. That is the voice of God because its the voice of truth and experience.
Chris Matthews
#44. My audience is much more center right, or centrist.
Chris Matthews
#45. In politics, nothing good ever comes from the unexpected.
Chris Matthews
#46. I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience.
Chris Matthews
#47. The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.
Chris Matthews
#50. Five years from now, 10 years from now, there's going to be a huge Islamic population in the world, they're going to be nationalistic, they're going to be religious, and they're going to be militant.
Chris Matthews
#51. When I hear Rand Paul, who is much younger, saying wars are verkakte, I agree with him.
Chris Matthews
#52. You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.
Chris Matthews
#53. Pope John Paul II spoke with a lot of clarity and consistency. But he always spoke with immense compassion. He's the one who said the best way to love somebody is to tell them the truth. So, he did that well.
Chris Matthews
#54. Are Democrats for expanding U.S. trade with the world and perhaps creating new jobs, or are they out to protect existing U.S. jobs?
Chris Matthews
#55. The holy father John Paul II made a profound impact wherever he went. And, of course, his trip to Boston was one of the earliest ones. But I must say every time that I met the holy father and mentioned Boston, he would immediately say, rain. So, it made quite an impact on him, too.
Chris Matthews
#56. People do have a - people, unlike politicians, are allowed to change their minds. People are allowed to look back and say, you know what, all things considered, I don't think that was the smart move.
Chris Matthews
#57. Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.
Chris Matthews
#58. I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'
Chris Matthews
#60. In life, as in death, Pope John Paul II was one of the most visible people on Earth.
Chris Matthews
#61. I think we all [americans] think we're a special country. But the question is, what - what call does that give us?
Chris Matthews
#63. Hillary Clinton does very well in Pennsylvania generally. I think she connects with the working white people and all kinds of people that normally would have a problem with the modern Democratic Party.
Chris Matthews
#64. This looking down our noses at tea party people has got to stop,
Chris Matthews
#65. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often.
Chris Matthews
#66. John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.
Chris Matthews
#67. Isn't Hollywood - and I love movies - a lot of it about a big lie?
Chris Matthews
#68. Isn't it odd that the guy was politically correct in one particularly weird way. Bill Clinton never lit a cigar.
Chris Matthews
#69. I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending.
Chris Matthews
#70. For Reagan,for his contemporaries, and many in the generations after them, the word Munich was understood as code for any nation's stepping back from necessary toughness
Chris Matthews
#71. I think, internally, we Catholics have known this for a long time. I think we're just thrilled and grateful that the rest of the world now is sharing in the esteem and gratitude that we've had for Pope John Paul II for 26 and a half years.
Chris Matthews
#72. Historically, the coupling of president and Speaker has been a tricky one that encourages a choreography both quick-footed and wary
Chris Matthews
#73. We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.
Chris Matthews
#74. The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.
Chris Matthews
#75. Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush won, because people liked him more. People just didn't like Gore. But all the journalists thought Gore won big, he cleaned the guy's clock.
Chris Matthews
#76. Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.
Chris Matthews
#77. All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution.
Chris Matthews
#78. What happens to conservatives when they get near the White House? How come they only seem to be talking the good talk at, say, the Senate level, when they don't have to run the show?
Chris Matthews
#79. You know, there were 29 Democratic votes for censure in the Senate. And if the Republicans had any sense, they would have censured him before the '98 midterm election, and they would have won the election.
Chris Matthews
#80. Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.
Chris Matthews
#81. Bill Clinton was for NAFTA. I heard him over in Tokyo he came out all said it was a great bill. Secretary Clinton was for it. She called it the gold standard when she was secretary of state.
Chris Matthews
#82. Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.
Chris Matthews
#83. It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.
Chris Matthews
#84. America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.
Chris Matthews
#85. I still think a reasonable question is, would we be better off with [Muamar] Gadhafi and Bashar al-Assad still in there and Mubarak still there and Saddam [Hussein] there than the crap we have got looking at us now?
Chris Matthews
#86. If you want to play a game, go to where it's played and find a way to get in. Things happen when you get in the game.
Chris Matthews
#87. I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.
Chris Matthews
#88. It was like an aphrodisiac. Actors would say let's have another cigarette on that great scenes, and they'd blow smoke in each other's face.
Chris Matthews
#89. I forgot he [Barack Obama] was black tonight for an hour.
Chris Matthews
#90. I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.
Chris Matthews
#91. He was making the inevitable pivot from critic to manager.
Chris Matthews
#92. Over the last 2,000 years, 10,000 saints have been named, among them, 78 popes. At the time of his death, Pope John Paul II had the distinction of naming 482 saints, more than all of his predecessors combined.
Chris Matthews
#93. The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.
Chris Matthews
#94. on-air appearance you could see that the secretary of state
Chris Matthews
#95. I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.'
Chris Matthews
#96. We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.
Chris Matthews
#97. Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.
Chris Matthews
#98. Everything he's done is clean as a whistle. He's never not only broken any law, he's never done anything wrong.
Chris Matthews
#99. We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.
Chris Matthews
#100. President [Barack]Obama benefits from the shared experience and wisdom of top national security and foreign policy advisers, many of them career professionals.
Chris Matthews
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