Steve Kornacki

Chris Matthews is a giant. He's a legend.

— Steve Kornacki

I do a lot of walking.

— Steve Kornacki

When LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the modern Southern GOP was born.

— Steve Kornacki

Running 26 miles is a feat that demands respect, no matter how long it takes.

— Steve Kornacki

I think I'll forget to eat a lot during election week.

— Steve Kornacki

Hillary Clinton's weakest group, though, is people under 30, the young.

— Steve Kornacki

Exactly why Democrats were crushed in the '94 midterms is impossible to say.

— Steve Kornacki

Trump showed you can get elected by voters who think very poorly of you.

— Steve Kornacki

My knowledge of popular music more or less ends in 1972.

— Steve Kornacki

I almost flunked pre-calculus back in high school.

— Steve Kornacki

Midterm elections, by nature, just aren't about the party that's out of power. But presidential years are different.

— Steve Kornacki

The lesson I take from TV is the less rehearsed it is, the more natural it's going to seem. Don't overthink it.…

— Steve Kornacki

There's always been deep divisions in this country - we had a civil war - and there've been regional and cultural and…

— Steve Kornacki

I was the All-American kid, or so I told myself - good grades, never in trouble, bright future, well-respected by my peers.…

— Steve Kornacki

When the two have crossed paths in public, McCain hasn't even tried to mask his ill will toward Obama.

— Steve Kornacki

I just didn't fit the stereotypes of gay men. I was an ESPN addict as far back as elementary school. I'd also…

— Steve Kornacki

Generally, the real question in a midterm year is whether the damage for the ruling party will be severe or mild.

— Steve Kornacki

Bernie Sanders is usually speaking to the converted. He fires them up. It's a completely different style of campaigning that he's allergic…

— Steve Kornacki

Through the years, through my own conversations, through my own weird obsessions, I think I have developed some very deep politics of…

— Steve Kornacki

It's impossible to overstate the degree to which the '94 GOP revolution shook the political class. Bill Clinton was immediately dismissed as…

— Steve Kornacki

There was a certain futility to Elizabeth Colbert Busch's congressional campaign, one that had nothing to do with her and everything to…

— Steve Kornacki

The godfather of the modern Mississippi Republican Party, Charles Pickering, left the Democrats in 1964 because the party's national convention agreed to…

— Steve Kornacki

There's a difference between having a challenger whose name appears on the ballot and that's pretty much it, versus having a challenger…

— Steve Kornacki

There's been no end to the grief Mitch McConnell's taken for his declaration early in Barack Obama's first term that his party's…

— Steve Kornacki

Whereas his father would deliver rambling lectures that were heavy on gold and often disconnected from the political news of the moment,…

— Steve Kornacki

The Founders surely never imagined that a three-fifths majority would be the standard requirement for passing legislation in the upper chamber, and…

— Steve Kornacki

This is a terrible year [2015] in a lot of ways. You have Paris. You have San Bernardino. But there was, if…

— Steve Kornacki

My first job in journalism was covering politics in New Jersey.

— Steve Kornacki

New Jersey's governorship is the most powerful in the nation.

— Steve Kornacki

Richard Nixon built his presidency on his notorious 'Southern strategy.'

— Steve Kornacki

I've been a football fan pretty much my whole life.

— Steve Kornacki

A case can be made that Boehner's skills as a House leader are underappreciated.

— Steve Kornacki

My favorite player, all-time, will always be Doug Flutie.

— Steve Kornacki

I have a specialization in a very particular area: the presidential primary process.

— Steve Kornacki

Romney and CPAC were never a particularly good match.

— Steve Kornacki

I went to a public school, so we didn't have to wear a tie.

— Steve Kornacki

I was probably the worst calculus student in the history of my high school.

— Steve Kornacki

Republicans have used the filibuster to turn the Senate into a de facto 60-vote body.

— Steve Kornacki

Rush Limbaugh is saying he never took Trump seriously in the first place.

— Steve Kornacki

I can multiply. Long divisions start to be a stretch.

— Steve Kornacki