Chris Hayes Quotes & Sayings

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

“Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.”

“Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'”

“My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.”

“My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.”

“My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'”

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

“I give so much credit to the 'Up' team who created appointment viewing on the weekends for us and some of the smartest conversations on television.”

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

“I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.”