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Chris Matthews

(1911–1965) Rugby Union Player United States

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Chris Matthews was a rugby union player from the United States, best known for American.

Quick Facts About Chris Matthews

Born: August 16, 1911
Died: December 5, 1965
Nationality: United States
Profession: Rugby Union Player
Notable works: American
Spouse: Kathleen Matthews

About Chris Matthews

Christopher John Matthews is an American political commentator, retired talk show host, and author. Matthews hosted his weeknight hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, on America's Talking and later on MSNBC, from 1997 until 2020. He announced on his final episode that he was retiring, following an accusation that he had made inappropriate comments to a Hardball guest four years earlier.

Biography source: Wikipedia

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We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when…

America

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Even if you're not a Catholic, even if you're not a Christian, in fact even if you have no religious faith at…

Catholic

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Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary.…

Empty

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The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to…

Chorus

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We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker…

Brokers

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[Barack] Obama believes you can hold enemy combatants, unlawful enemy combatants at Gitmo without a criminal trial because this is law of…

Barack

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The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the…

Dealing

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Once it was suggested that Saddam Hussein might give his weaponry to terrorists, or might use weapons himself in the region, then…

Democrats

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You can be Mitt Romney with three marriages and a disastrous speakership, kicked out of the speakership, being reprimanded by the House…

House

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The establishment of the Republican Party, which I've been watching all my life. They always seem to win. I mean, there was…

Catastrophe

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Bernie Sanders even reminded me of the way I felt at parties over the years. You go to a party, you don't…

Bernie sanders

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I think, internally, we Catholics have known this for a long time. I think we're just thrilled and grateful that the rest…

Catholic

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Jean [Kennedy Smith, JFK's sister] told me she thinks the whole sports angle has been overplayed, that politics was central to him.…

Angle

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“It won a commitment from the Soviet leader to take no action that would influence the 1962 congressional elections. Both the White…

Leadership

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I thought, giving Jeb Bush the benefit of the doubt all these years, that he was sitting, saying, what a numbnut, what…

Benefit of the doubt

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I'm impressed that people out there in Pennsylvania, deer hunter country, have had it with these stupid wars, that they don't go…

Bigs

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If Bernie Sanders hasn't been able to draw a contrast with Hillary Clinton, why is he doing so well, a guy -…

Able

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I think also people in states like Pennsylvania know that a lot of money and effort and time needs to be spent…

America

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And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for…

Facts

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All Hollywood endings - the bad endings have to be the bad guys to be falling about 50 stories to his death…

Bad guy

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This is a fundamental question, Mr. Mayor [ Rudy Giuliani ]. Is the president of the United States legitimate or not? Do…

Believe

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I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I…

Branded

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People - Hollywood doesn't talk about how bad cigarette smells when it smells like they wake up in bed with somebody who…

Bed

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I do think that Hillary Clinton risks looking like she's imitating Elizabeth Warren when she starts doing it. She'll look like Elizabeth…

Clinton

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[Hillary] Clinton was able to assemble a winning Democratic coalition out here, beating Sanders among African-Americans, women, among women, and voters from…

Able

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There is absolutely no record ever of Hillary Clinton or anyone in her campaign ever saying that President [Barack] Obama is not…

Barack

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Over the last 2,000 years, 10,000 saints have been named, among them, 78 popes. At the time of his death, Pope John…

Distinction

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I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was…

Another way

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Pope John Paul II is the great. Only two other popes had that title. Does that suggest there is going to be…

Doe

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We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in…

Arab world

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In light of Jeb Bush's recent fumbles on Iraq , maybe the Clinton campaign is making the smart move here by not saying.

Campaigns

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When lightning strikes you want to be there, right there in the room. You, not everybody's going to say yes to you.…

Lightning

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“For Reagan,for his contemporaries, and many in the generations after them, the word Munich was understood as code for any nation's stepping…

Gop

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Rush Limbaugh is beginning to look more and more like Mr. Big, and at some point somebody's going to jam a CO2…

Bigs

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The real difference between relationship politics and transactional politics is loyalty. [Barack] Obama doesn't seem to expect it.

Barack

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I think in places like Pennsylvania, there's folks who want our next president to talk like a hawk, but fly like a…

Dove

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Just come in there and stand before a live crowd, thousands of people at an Ivy League School, like Eleanor Roosevelt said,…

Eleanor

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Hillary Clinton did better among working-class whites when she's running against Barack Hussein Obama. How is she doing now against an older,…

Barack

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I see some parallels [with Barack Obama] but I don't see the leadership that this guy [John F.Kennedy] had of other men…

Barack

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Toastmasters changed my life. They really did. Put me on the stage. I don’t know what I would have done without that…

Boost

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