229 Quotes by Chris Hayes

In the Nation, there is law; in the Colony, there is only a concern with order. In the Nation, you have rights; in the Colony, you have commands. In the Nation, you are innocent until proven guilty; in the Colony, you are born guilty. Police officers tasked with keeping these two realms separate intuitively grasp of the contours of this divide: as one Baltimore police sergeant instructed his officers, “Do not treat criminals like citizens.

And in America, when the state cultivates such fear among relatively empowered white voters, it is enriching uranium for a political nuclear weapon. It.

Like Trump’s presidential bid, the Brexit campaign has been driven largely by fears of cultural penetration, immigrant invasion, and the genuine crisis of Middle East refugees dying to get into Europe, all channeled into a kind of inward-turning form of ethno-nationalism.

My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in ‘The New York Review of Books.’

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.

With all the talk of socialism among Democrats on the campaign trail lately, there are actually quite a few people on the right looking at how resources and capital are currently distributed in this country of ours and thinking, you know, there’s got to be a better way.

To be outnumbered and afraid in a land not your own, and to attempt to bring it under your control – this is the great recurring theme of the American project, and it is shot through at every moment by fear and violence and subjugation.

There’s that issue of if you attack someone you don’t know where the votes are going to go.

Where is the Marco Rubio bump everyone was promised? And it doesn’t look very good.