David Brock

“The Right has been trying to take down Bill Clinton for 20 years. I know; I was there.”

“Bill Clinton's legacy on job creation should be assailed by none and admired by every presidential candidate who hopes to do the same.”

“Nobody ever said that Hillary's nomination would be unopposed or would be something that was foreordained.”

“We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that's what we're going to do.”

“You never discount a demagogue.”

“There was a slow-motion swift boating of Hillary Clinton in '15.”

“Money is money.”

“When I founded Media Matters, there was another model, which would have been to call this the Brock Report. But I was much less interested in my own profile by that point, because I had already done that once, and it was not terribly fulfilling at the end of the day.”

“I made the apologies that needed to be made, and so I didn't feel that Media Matters was a continuing form of saying I was sorry.”

“When a political advocacy network hires a former CIA analyst and starts tailing save-our-parks activists, you know there's something terribly dangerous happening to our democracy.”

“I was a bad journalist.”

“Republicans tend to be more steadfast in their allegiance, and Democrats read one headline in the 'New York Times,' and the sky is suddenly falling.”

“Writing at the 'American Spectator' in the 1990s, we threw everything we thought would stick at President Clinton.”

“The people who know Ted Cruz best despise him, including his former college roommate.”

“Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.”

“If I was a political mercenary, I would be using my talents in another line of work.”

“Donald Trump intimidated the press and bullied the press.”

“I think the Democratic Party has to learn how to be a party of opposition.”

“I have conservative relatives. I maintain some relationships with some conservatives going back to the 1990s... Not in any meaningful way.”

“Progressives are not going to give up on facts.”