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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Liberty is the most important thing.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I love doing talk shows.

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

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

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

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

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