“We have the committee, the Benghazi committee this week. Well, she’s going to murder them because it has been a witch hunt. It has been partisan. It’s a great opportunity for her.”
— Veteran journalist Carl Bernstein on CNN’s Reliable Sources, October 18, 2015.
“It ain’t a dog whistle, it is a racist P.A. announcement that all of Trump supporters in America can listen to: ‘I know the facts aren’t on our side, I know we’re not gonna win in the courts, but let me just tell you I’m trying to keep brown people....from Latin America out of the United States. Because when I say....let’s make America great again, I’m really just saying, as Donald Trump your…
“That one odd moment that a lot of people are talking about this morning, Mr. Vice President, where the President was talking about having arguments that are worthy of the body and the country, and then he said, ‘I’ve run my last campaign,’ and there was a smattering of applause, maybe even laughter from some Republicans and the President shot back. Did you see that as a moment of disrespect? Was…
“It [Obama’s State of the Union speech] reminded me – I mean, this is going to sound ridiculous, like I always think about George Washington, but it reminded me of George Washington’s Farewell Address.”
— Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on PBS’s Charlie Rose, January 12, 2016.
“There was a lot of shade thrown, but when Nancy Pelosi put on shades for exactly five seconds, that became the moment her fans immortalized. “Pelosi like a rock star.” “That look when you just got finished manhandling a man baby.” “The new power suit for women, red coat, sunglasses, nerves of steel.” “For a politician who almost saw her position as House speaker to be blown up, it must be sweet…
“I’m trying to hold onto my personal rights so that you can have the rights you want. See? Because if you take mine, I feel like you’re the one with the problem. If you take my right away from me, to judge what I do for my family and my body, I got a little problem with that. You got a problem. You don’t want people to take your guns? Get out of my behind! Get out of my vagina! Get out!”— Co-Host…
“There has never been a more single-minded politician than Paul Ryan. He cares only about eviscerating the social safety net, repealing the 20th century, all of the New Deal, the Great Society, he wants all that gone and it is true. He is pathetic. I think it’s one of the darkest, sort of chapters in the Trump era is there Paul Ryan revealing himself.”— AM Joy host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s Hardball,…
“We’re not going to let these people go through life unscathed. Sarah Huckabee has no right to live a life of no fuss, no muss, after lying to the press – after inciting against the press. These people should be made uncomfortable, and I think that’s a life sentence frankly.”— Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin on MSNBC’s AM Joy, July 1, 2018.
“Are you comfortable tear gassing children, like what we saw at the border?”
— Correspondent Hallie Jackson’s question to Donald Trump as aired on NBC Nightly News, November 26.
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“The same tear-gas agent that the Trump administration is taking heat for deploying against a border mob this weekend is actually used fairly frequently — including more than once a month during the later years of…
“He’s [Donald Trump] happy to have a situation that’s incendiary, that might lead to....one of the troops having to shoot someone. If he can provoke one violent confrontation in which someone who is a migrant looks as though they’re engaging in violence against our troops...he thinks that works for him.”
— NBC News National Affairs analyst John Heilemann on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, November 26.