Chris Hayes Quotes

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• Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.
• Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.
• 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…
• 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.
• I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.
• 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…
• My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.
• I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.
• 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.…
• My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
• I grew up in the Bronx.

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