327 Quotes by Chris Matthews

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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 the Second. And nobody is electing anybody a second of anything.

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    I know, when I look into the eyes of my own children, the look of wonder when I speak of life back in the ’60s. That’s why the Rolling Stones are such a hit even in their 60s, why Dennis Hopper is so compelling, even when he’s making pitches for something unhip as long-term financial planning.

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    Natural-born American means you don’t have to be naturalized. You were born to an American mother, like President Obama, no matter where you were born.

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    I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we’re dead. They’re not going to give up their religion.

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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 along with the neocon theology, they don’t go along with the big money people or the evangelicals that always seem to want to fight, especially in the Middle East.

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    Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush won, because people liked him more. People just didn’t like Gore. But all the journalists thought Gore won big, he cleaned the guy’s clock.

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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 it comes to business.

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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 pellet into his head and he’s going to explode like a giant blimp. That day may come. Not yet, but we’ll be there to watch.

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    America’s the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.

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