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“How could anyone ever build a company if they didn't have investments? It doesn't make any sense.”
“I want to interview Alec Baldwin.”
“Imagine a progressive president fighting to fix the insane economic inequality in the country or to end the senseless drug war or, best of all, battling to get money out of politics. Wouldn't that be wonderful?”
“There are a lot of things wrong with the country, and that doesn't mean America sucks. It means we should improve it.”
“Success is about persistence. You can only afford to be persistent in something you deeply enjoy.”
“I don't really trust politicians, and our job is to call them out. It's old-school journalism.”
“I find the Democratic party overall, on a macro level, to be institutionally corrupt.”
“When I was at MSNBC, I had issues with the Obama administration. I got told by the person who runs MSNBC... that Washington was not happy with my tone.”
“I think 'progressive' is different than 'liberal' - I know a lot of people use them interchangeably - but I think I'm far more progressive than I am liberal.”
“TV has made everyone so vanilla it's nearly impossible to tell one anchor apart from another.”
“I've criticized myself over the years.”
“You think that the CNN hosts can aggressively challenge government officials? I don't think so. It doesn't look that way at all. And of course, when you get to Fox News, they're a whole different animal: they're purely propaganda.”
“The president can violate the law, and when he does, he is supposed to be held accountable. That is supposed to be one of the pillars of our democracy.”
“I was a liberal Republican growing up in New Jersey. That doesn't exist anymore. If you're a Republican, you have to think that tax cuts for the rich are awesome, torture is awesome, moral war is awesome.”
“I think President Obama is clearly, you know, a Republican. I know, because in the 1990s I was a Republican, and he's way to the right of me, and I've hardly changed any positions.”
“Never, ever get on an American Airlines flight. They will make you wait four hours, and then, when you complain about it, you will be kicked off your flight, and they will rob you of your money.”
“The whole country doesn't like politicians, and young people like them even less.”
“The reason people like the Young Turks is because we say things you're not allowed to say in Washington that are obviously true.”
“I'm the poorest famous person in the country.”
“Republicans, Democrats, libertarians, and independents all agree on only one thing - our national politicians are bought.”