100 Quotes by Joy Reid

I've written before that the president is our national avatar - a stand-in for what we believe we are, or want to be.

Freedom is neither guaranteed nor automatic; not even in the United States. Left unguarded, it can slip away like a thief in the night.

Trump built Trump Tower using mob concrete, not Bethlehem steel.

Trump is a big businessman. He's your boss or CEO, not one of your brothers on the line.

The Trumps have spent exactly zero percent of their lives caring about anyone other than themselves.

The Hollywood of Frank Capra's era, when Reagan became a minor star, sold the world an image of American pith and patriotism in many ways as defining as the moon landing or the A-bomb.

Even without the euphoria of 'yes we can,' Hillary Clinton is to white women what Barack Obama was to African-Americans. She represents the opportunity to see a like image in the Oval Office for the first time.

America is, in many ways, as much an idea as it is a country. And Americans have long marketed that idea around the world through our popular culture.

Being on a grand jury felt like attending a series of hangings in a legal Wild West. Hands up for a true bill. Hands up for a dismissal. A show of hands to save a life, or to end it.