Cenk Uygur

“Liberty is the most important thing.”

“The Grand Bargain is a Grand Lie. Anyone who argues for it is either a fool or a charlatan. If President Obama was anything but the establishment hack that he is, he would never consider it.”

“Our number one agenda is to get money out of politics, to drain the swamp, but not in the way that Trump said. He stacked his cabinet full of Goldman Sachs guys.”

“I'm an early, middle, and late supporter of Bernie Sanders.”

“It was a terrible idea by the Democrats to support Hillary Clinton.”

“I don't have to do something I'm not comfortable with just to be on television.”

“Trump is a maniac.”

“I have no love for the Republicans, but the Democrats drive me absolutely crazy.”

“I grew up in Jersey. I've been to the Jersey Shore countless times. I've lived it.”

“I want to steer the national conversation in the right direction, from my point of view. I want to get under Robert Gibbs' skin and Rahm Emanuel's skin and Barack Obama's skin.”

“Even the most ardent Obama supporter can't, in good conscience or sound mental state, argue that President Obama has changed the way Washington works. He's just played the game a little better, if you're being charitable on how you keep score on that count.”

“I have always believed in the marketplace of ideas.”

“I didn't want to be a senator, but I considered it anyway.”

“TV is a wasteland. It's a bunch of news actors that read off a prompter.”

“Whenever people in Washington complain about spending cuts, they mean spending cuts that would affect defense contractors. They want to massively increase spending cuts everywhere else in the budget.”

“When I want to relax, it's nine out of 10 times TV or movies. I love going to the movies and grabbing popcorn or watching 'Mad Men,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Breaking Bad.'”

“Because Bernie is going to bring in progressives and not lobbyists and people who are pro-corporate... for the establishment of the Democratic party, Bernie Sanders was more dangerous than Donald Trump.”

“If you don't watch 'The Young Turks,' you don't know me at all. Whereas no one watches Anderson Cooper, but everyone knows him.”

“You can turn on Fox News almost any day and see some fictional story about voter fraud, the whole purpose of which is to limit voting by the poor, the elderly, college students and minorities.”

“I've defended the Clintons longer than I've been a liberal, but I don't have any nostalgia for that.”