Chris Hayes famous quotes

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.
-- Chris Hayes

#Law #Want #Torture

There is no evidence that government under Republicans will shrink. It`s simply a question of what the government will do and who will benefit.
-- Chris Hayes

#Government #Benefits #Republican

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.
-- Chris Hayes

#Powerful #America #Accountability

It`s the nature of cable news that we [TV hosts] do a lot of clipping and quoting of other broadcasts and outlets, sometimes to make a narrative point, sometimes to make a political one, and sometimes just to make a joke.
-- Chris Hayes

#Political #News #Narrative

I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.
-- Chris Hayes

#Blood #Lefties #Journalism

I don't think polarization is some kind of grand distraction. It's real. People have different commitments, believe in different things and principles, different visions of the good life ... but there is also a degree to which all the really big, successful reform movements in the country had extremely bizarre ideological coalitions.
-- Chris Hayes

#Country #Good Life #Real

It's not uncommon for revolutions to stem from a radicalized group just outside the circle of power. That's what the French Revolution was all about; that's what the American Revolution was. The question is: Will all those groups, because of the nature of partisan polarization and ideological polarization, just fight each other? Or is there capacity to organize?
-- Chris Hayes

#Fighting #Circles #Revolution

Because we [the USA] are so powerful, our failures resonate more. In some ways, the worst victims of our institutional and elite failures, through the ripple effect of financial crisis and war, aren't Americans.
-- Chris Hayes

#Powerful #War #Usa

Obviously it's easier to grow faster when you are a less developed country than when you are where the U.S. is.
-- Chris Hayes

#Country #Easier #Faster

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.
-- Chris Hayes

#Mean #Hierarchy #Natural

Meritocracy is our social ideal, particularly among good liberals. Equality of opportunity, but not of outcome. Not evaluating people by their [outside] features, but by their innate talent and drive.
-- Chris Hayes

#Opportunity #People #Outcomes

We don`t have a manufacturing base. We don`t have a middle-class jobs growing at all. All we have is a few rich people and a service industry to service them.
-- Chris Hayes

#Jobs #Class #People

I also love lifestyles of the rich and famous and guess what? It`s not unusual for me to sit in bed with my laptop and glass of wine, clicking through real estate slide shows on the New York Times website; looking at ungodly expensive homes I could not ever possibly afford.
-- Chris Hayes

#New York #Real #Home

Once you start thinking about growth of economy, it`s hard to think about anything else.
-- Chris Hayes

#Thinking #Growth #Economy

Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.
-- Chris Hayes

#Thinking #Challenges #Climate

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.
-- Chris Hayes

#Kind #Authority #Disposition

Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.
-- Chris Hayes

#Way #Kind #Sentences

Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'
-- Chris Hayes

#Allies #Ladders #Oligarchy

Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.
-- Chris Hayes

#Sadness #Successful #Emotional

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.
-- Chris Hayes

#Thinking #People #Injustice

What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise.
-- Chris Hayes

#Sake #Doe #Urban

Impossible is a word for other people to use when life scares them.
-- Chris Hayes

#People #Scare #Use

One of the main points of the philosophy behind parkour is being able to help people... To teach them they way themselves, to gain confidence in themselves, building up from simple moves to more complex things, to teach them that they are worthwhile people.
-- Chris Hayes

#Philosophy #Moving #Simple

I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.
-- Chris Hayes

#Grew Up #Grew #Household

Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down.
-- Chris Hayes

#Reading #Skills #Trying

I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.
-- Chris Hayes

#Basketball #Thinking #Views

Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.
-- Chris Hayes

#Cancer #Talking #Smoking

It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.
-- Chris Hayes

#War #Hero #Valor

I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and, I don't want to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that's fallen, and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous heroism, you know, hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers and things like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic. But maybe I'm wrong about that.
-- Chris Hayes

#Memories #War #Hero

I've had a dozen people tell me, maybe more, 'What would have happened if Michael Brown had shot and killed Darren Wilson? Do you think he would be free right now? Do you think he would not have been charged by now?' People just see this manifest double-standard in front of them that's coming at the long line of a whole bunch of grievances that have built up over time because of the dynamics of Ferguson and frankly, the dynamics of race in America more broadly.
-- Chris Hayes

#Thinking #Race #America

The NYPD with the unconditional support of Mayor Michael Bloomberg has stopped-and-frisked more black men than there are black men in New York City. Institutionalized racial discrimination in the United States is alive and well.
-- Chris Hayes

#New York #Men #Cities

We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task.
-- Chris Hayes

#Broken #Tasks #Sin

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
-- Chris Hayes

#Mother #Teacher #Father

My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'
-- Chris Hayes

#Dream #New York #Book

When you think about the current present value of the fossil fuel reserves that are on the books, the current fossil fuel companies, the last time that that much wealth was at stake was when the South fought the Civil War,
-- Chris Hayes

#War #Book #Thinking

There's no real organised body, ... so through the internet people have spread their videos, spread photos, and spread word of a new urban movement.
-- Chris Hayes

#Real #People #Movement