229 Quotes by Chris Hayes

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    We have built a colony in a nation, not in the classic Marxist sense but in the deep sense we can appreciate as a former colony ourselves: A territory that isn’t actually free. A place controlled from outside rather than within. A place where the mechanisms of representation don’t work enough to give citizens a sense of ownership over their own government. A place where the law is a tool of control rather than a foundation for prosperity.

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    White fear is both a social fact and something burned into our individual neural pathways.

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    Presented with a challenge to its power, an illegitimate regime will often overreact, driven by the knowledge that all they have is force.

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    People understand who Donald Trump is. There was a lawsuit against him for housing discrimination, racial discrimination against African-Americans that’s been in “The New York Times”. Decades ago with “The New York Times”.

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    It doesn’t really matter what policy you’re for, so long ease gets your gut-level anger about whatever. So, you can’t attack Donald Trump on policy.

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    Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I’m trying to slow myself down.

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    Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that’s fair or not, that’s kind of the way it is.

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    I’ve written a lot of movies with smoking, and the some of those movies absolutely gloried in the smoking and I wasn’t concerned when I wrote them who would see them and how those movies would especially affect young people.

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    Maybe it’s a great blow for feminism that we now have men mocking one another about their makeup. I mean, let’s – can we enjoy that? That’s kind of great.

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