I've criticized myself over the years.

You know you're a bigot when you can't take out the word 'Muslim' from a sentence you stated and replace it with 'Jew' and still have it be socially acceptable.

The devil I know is the establishment, and I'm gonna beat that devil.

I know that a lot of people love to say that polls are wrong or don't matter, and from time to time they are - it depends on who they are polling.

The reason people like the Young Turks is because we say things you're not allowed to say in Washington that are obviously true.

The right wing has an ecosystem that is funded by billionaires who want tax cuts.

There are a lot of things wrong with the country, and that doesn't mean America sucks. It means we should improve it.

Jeremy Corbin is a little too liberal for me.

You can't win a congressional seat unless you have money. Even if you do, it's tick-tock, tick-tock until someone with more money beats you.

I was always kind of a loudmouth to the point where I annoyed my teachers and friends.

Be true to your audience, or you will lose money.

If I'm off the teleprompter, management doesn't get to see what I'm going to say.

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

I had one of the best nights of my life at Mardi Gras.

I hire a lot of hosts, reporters, producers, and I hire people who care about the news.

TV is a wasteland. It's a bunch of news actors that read off a prompter.

The right-wing wants to destroy all the media and replace it with their propaganda.

I didn't just graduate from Stanford with a really good idea and a good dad.

I love doing talk shows.

I'm an early, middle, and late supporter of Bernie Sanders.

I was a liberal Republican growing up in New Jersey. That doesn't exist anymore. If you're a Republican, you have to think that tax cuts for the rich are awesome, torture is awesome, moral war is awesome.

Do you see Fox News go after Republican officials all the time? No, you almost never see that. You see them do that to Trump administration officials almost never.

When you lose power, then all of a sudden, the press are lions. When you have power, the press are lambs.

I was at a White House Correspondents' Dinner, and I met Bobby Jindal, and we had a perfectly lovely twenty minute conversation.

There is no greater threat to Washington, D.C., than Bernie Sanders, and they know it.

The establishment thinks we're the bad guys, and we're the radicals, but what they don't realize is we're actually the last line of defense. After us, it's the pitchforks.

When I was at MSNBC, I had issues with the Obama administration. I got told by the person who runs MSNBC... that Washington was not happy with my tone.

It is fascinating. No matter where I go, people recognize me.

I find the Democratic party overall, on a macro level, to be institutionally corrupt.

Liberty is the most important thing.

How could anyone ever build a company if they didn't have investments? It doesn't make any sense.

I think 'progressive' is different than 'liberal' - I know a lot of people use them interchangeably - but I think I'm far more progressive than I am liberal.

I think a progressive is someone who cares to expand freedom for everybody.

Cable news, by its very nature, by its formula, is very guest-heavy.

If I'm working on the Internet, you know, it's different than working on television.

I think Rachel Maddow has done a brilliant job in becoming more and more independent. And I think she does a fantastic progressive show, and she did it by accruing power, by getting better and better ratings.

I've defended the Clintons longer than I've been a liberal, but I don't have any nostalgia for that.

Trump is a maniac.

Quietly, President Obama has done warrantless wire tapping. And it was hardly covered. I don't know if any of the mainstream press bothered to cover it.

If you love what you do, you're going to work hard enough at it in order to succeed. If you don't love what you do, you're never going to be able to work hard enough to make it work.

I think President Obama is not progressive. And I know a lot of people hate to hear that; it breaks their heart. But that's the reality. It's not in his nature. His nature is pro-establishment. If he had a wrestling nickname, it would be The Establishment.

I'm the poorest famous person in the country.

If you don't watch 'The Young Turks,' you don't know me at all. Whereas no one watches Anderson Cooper, but everyone knows him.

In politics, name recognition matters a lot.

She's going to do what her donors want. That's who Nancy Pelosi is. Not remotely progressive.

I look forward to fighting Nancy Pelosi, and I look forward to defeating Nancy Pelosi in getting the Green New Deal passed.

I don't have to do something I'm not comfortable with just to be on television.

Obama spent the first two years of his administration practicing political unilateral disarmament.

I want to steer the national conversation in the right direction, from my point of view. I want to get under Robert Gibbs' skin and Rahm Emanuel's skin and Barack Obama's skin.

The whole country doesn't like politicians, and young people like them even less.