Chris Hayes Quotes

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

We're in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want.

That's a maple leaf, Canadian, not just for being too European but too Canadian. Not so subtly putting [Ted] Cruz's face inside that maple leaf there.

Ted Cruz who's been gaining on [Donald] Trump in Iowa and is polling ahead of him in the latest Monmouth poll would be quite reluctant to criticize Trump's plan saying simply it is not his policy.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.

The backlash to [Sarah] Palin's comments was swift, with veterans and veterans' groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.

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

Obviously it's easier to grow faster when you are a less developed country than when you are where the U.S. is.

We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task.

There's no real organised body, ... so through the internet people have spread their videos, spread photos, and spread word of a new urban movement.

I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

Screenwriting Joe Eszterhas have always talked about the charm of evil.

You see a lot of fear among Republicans. Oh, man, this guy [Donald Trump] has a lot of vulnerabilities and weaknesses that's not been tested at all yet.

After a battle royale debate, the fight between [Marco]Rubio and [Donald]Trump gets ugly.

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

David Roberts, who is a writer at Vox who I like, had a line about the voter - your voters weren't locked in the room with you, Republican establishment. You were locked in the room with them.

Donald Trump said it was his idea for [Sarah] Palin to bring up her son at the rally.

There's a line of thinking about Ted Cruz.

Everyone is now [Donald] Trump.

No one's dropped a cent - there's no negative ads up against Donald Trump in Iowa which is crazy to think about.

I think I was a militant smoker, and I felt hemmed in by a wall of political correctness and I think I purposely and militantly put the smoking scenes in the movies.

I'm a big fan of Donald Trump's.

Once you start thinking about growth of economy, it's hard to think about anything else.

We don't have a manufacturing base. We don't have a middle-class jobs growing at all. All we have is a few rich people and a service industry to service them.

Islam does not preach hatred and violence and destruction.

[Ted] Cruz may have been hoping his reversal would fly under the radar.

Trump University is just one of the many lines of attack that were opened up last night, giving a preview of what's to come in the general if [Donald] Trump is indeed the Republican nominee.

Ted Cruz announcing he's no longer never [Donald] Trump.

One of the main point of contention is whether or not Keith Scott was in possession of a gun. We still don't know. Police say he did have a gun. The gun was recovered.

Hillary Clinton tweeted "Charlotte should release police video of the Keith Lamont Scott shooting without delay. The Clinton campaign has since announced that Clinton will travel to Charlotte.

I think it's fair to say there's some significant portion of the community that doesn't feel they can take the Charlotte police at their word.

Something changed between the two men, namely [Donald ] Trump started slinging mud on Twitter about [Ted] Cruz's wife, Heidi, including a mean comparing her looks unfavourably to his own.

The base that Donald Trump is speaking to are not that conservative, at least not the way conservatives have defined themselves.

If he [Donald Trump]can boost Mitt Romney's performance five points among white folks, he could have a shot.

The Republican Party is officially a dumpster fire.

David Frum has been saying - [Donald] Trump is all about conservatism as identity, not conservatism as ideology.

Donald Trump isn't doing anyone any favors by running to be the most powerful person on the planet, right?

For the love of god, find something actually socially useful to do with your money. Because if you don't, socialism's going to start looking a lot better to a whole lot of people.

There's a lot in common between the Trump phenomenon and the campaign for Britain to exit the European Union, known as Brexit.

Politico reports, multiple advisers to the Right To Rise super Pac concede privately that the $40 million spent on positive ads aimed at telling Bush's story yielded no tangible dividends.

The New York Times and Politico report , as Bush continues to flounder on the campaign trail, backers are placing some of the blame on Right To Rise and its inability to sell their candidate.

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.

What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.