Success is about persistence. You can only afford to be persistent in something you deeply enjoy.
— Cenk Uygur
Trump is a maniac.
The devil I know is the establishment, and I'm gonna beat that devil.
You think that the CNN hosts can aggressively challenge government officials? I don't think so. It doesn't look that way at all. And of course, when you get to Fox News, they're a whole different animal: they're purely propaganda.
Unfortunately, a lot of the mainstream media television is so fake, so plastic, that it's really turned off the younger generation.
How could anyone ever build a company if they didn't have investments? It doesn't make any sense.
I find the Democratic party overall, on a macro level, to be institutionally corrupt.
The establishment thinks we're the bad guys, and we're the radicals, but what they don't realize is we're actually the last line of defense. After us, it's the pitchforks.
When you lose power, then all of a sudden, the press are lions. When you have power, the press are lambs.
I'm an early, middle, and late supporter of Bernie Sanders.
The right-wing wants to destroy all the media and replace it with their propaganda.
The Republicans love alpha-males, and they're sick of the corruption, too. Not that Trump will do anything about it. But at least he's not bought. And he throws in just the right amount of racism to appeal to the Republican base.
I've criticized myself over the years.
Be true to your audience, or you will lose money.
Jeremy Corbin is a little too liberal for me.
The right wing has an ecosystem that is funded by billionaires who want tax cuts.
I know that a lot of people love to say that polls are wrong or don't matter, and from time to time they are - it depends on who they are polling.
If you love what you do, you're going to work hard enough at it in order to succeed. If you don't love what you do, you're never going to be able to work hard enough to make it work.
I've defended the Clintons longer than I've been a liberal, but I don't have any nostalgia for that.
I think Rachel Maddow has done a brilliant job in becoming more and more independent. And I think she does a fantastic progressive show, and she did it by accruing power, by getting better and better ratings.
If I'm working on the Internet, you know, it's different than working on television.
I think a progressive is someone who cares to expand freedom for everybody.
Liberty is the most important thing.
It is fascinating. No matter where I go, people recognize me.
There is no greater threat to Washington, D.C., than Bernie Sanders, and they know it.
Do you see Fox News go after Republican officials all the time? No, you almost never see that. You see them do that to Trump administration officials almost never.
I love doing talk shows.
TV is a wasteland. It's a bunch of news actors that read off a prompter.
I had one of the best nights of my life at Mardi Gras.
I'm interested in producing more TV shows.
I was always kind of a loudmouth to the point where I annoyed my teachers and friends.
There are a lot of things wrong with the country, and that doesn't mean America sucks. It means we should improve it.
The reason people like the Young Turks is because we say things you're not allowed to say in Washington that are obviously true.
Quietly, President Obama has done warrantless wire tapping. And it was hardly covered. I don't know if any of the mainstream press bothered to cover it.
I made $70,000 in the 1990s, when I was a corporate lawyer. I didn't see that salary again until I was on MSNBC.
I think President Obama is clearly, you know, a Republican. I know, because in the 1990s I was a Republican, and he's way to the right of me, and I've hardly changed any positions.
Cable news, by its very nature, by its formula, is very guest-heavy.
I think 'progressive' is different than 'liberal' - I know a lot of people use them interchangeably - but I think I'm far more progressive than I am liberal.
Our number one agenda is to get money out of politics, to drain the swamp, but not in the way that Trump said. He stacked his cabinet full of Goldman Sachs guys.
When I was at MSNBC, I had issues with the Obama administration. I got told by the person who runs MSNBC... that Washington was not happy with my tone.
I was at a White House Correspondents' Dinner, and I met Bobby Jindal, and we had a perfectly lovely twenty minute conversation.
I was a liberal Republican growing up in New Jersey. That doesn't exist anymore. If you're a Republican, you have to think that tax cuts for the rich are awesome, torture is awesome, moral war is awesome.
I didn't just graduate from Stanford with a really good idea and a good dad.
I hire a lot of hosts, reporters, producers, and I hire people who care about the news.
Obviously, the genes of women are flawed. They are poorly designed creatures who do not want to have sex nearly as often as needed for the human race to get along peaceably and fruitfully.
If I'm off the teleprompter, management doesn't get to see what I'm going to say.
You can't win a congressional seat unless you have money. Even if you do, it's tick-tock, tick-tock until someone with more money beats you.
I'm a huge optimist.
I am not in the camp of 'Russia has to be our enemy, and they have to be that way forever,' and I think sometimes we fight about from the past.
