99 Quotes by Ari Melber

I get up with an old-school alarm clock.

That's the problem with precedents. Even the extreme ones tend to get repeated.

TV can keep you honest because the viewers really do listen. People who have succeeded in this have shown the audience how hard they work and that their reporting is really worthwhile.

Democracy functions better when donors push politicians to win campaigns based on their defining issues instead of using financial pressure for policy changes, favors, or special access.

Republicans believe an obstructionist, do-nothing Congress will deny Obama momentum and keep their base energized.

From the Fourth Amendment to post-Watergate reforms to the national outcry when Bush's warrantless surveillance was revealed in 2005, the United States has a strong tradition of overseeing the government's power to spy on its citizens.

Politics has certainly changed a lot in an era of micro-targeting, Super PACs, and Twitter.

Anyone with a cursory knowledge of American history knows that unchecked spying undermines democracy and public trust.

The press is always more comfortable with factual determinations than moral ones, although in day-to-day life, a lot of people care a heck of a lot more about morality than every precise actual fact.