Cenk Uygur

“When you lose power, then all of a sudden, the press are lions. When you have power, the press are lambs.”

“Obama spent the first two years of his administration practicing political unilateral disarmament.”

“If you love what you do, you're going to work hard enough at it in order to succeed. If you don't love what you do, you're never going to be able to work hard enough to make it work.”

“The Democratic Party takes huge amounts of cash from corporations and unions to vote a certain way.”

“Quietly, President Obama has done warrantless wire tapping. And it was hardly covered. I don't know if any of the mainstream press bothered to cover it.”

“I'm a huge optimist.”

“The establishment thinks we're the bad guys, and we're the radicals, but what they don't realize is we're actually the last line of defense. After us, it's the pitchforks.”

“These Hillary supporters just drove a car into a giant ditch named Trump. They let Trump win. They let him become the most powerful man on Earth. Sorry, you're not getting the wheel again after driving into the ditch.”

“The Republicans love alpha-males, and they're sick of the corruption, too. Not that Trump will do anything about it. But at least he's not bought. And he throws in just the right amount of racism to appeal to the Republican base.”

“If I get something wrong on air, I get 1,000 emails correcting me instantly, and most of our story suggestions come from viewers.”

“If I get hungry, I get cranky on air.”

“Jeremy Corbin is a little too liberal for me.”

“I think a progressive is someone who cares to expand freedom for everybody.”

“You can't win a congressional seat unless you have money. Even if you do, it's tick-tock, tick-tock until someone with more money beats you.”

“I think the rise of progressives is the biggest storyline there is, whether it's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Kara Eastman or Randy Bryce, Richard Ojeda - real populist progressives that are willing to actually fight for the progressive message rather than the lukewarm establishment Democrats.”

“Obviously, the genes of women are flawed. They are poorly designed creatures who do not want to have sex nearly as often as needed for the human race to get along peaceably and fruitfully.”

“I think President Obama is not progressive. And I know a lot of people hate to hear that; it breaks their heart. But that's the reality. It's not in his nature. His nature is pro-establishment. If he had a wrestling nickname, it would be The Establishment.”

“The right-wing wants to destroy all the media and replace it with their propaganda.”

“When's the last time CNN broke an important story or really made the government angry? I literally can't remember. That's because they're built to be inoffensive. They do the opposite of watchdog journalism. They simply pass on the government's message to their audience.”

“In politics, name recognition matters a lot.”