Top 90 Chris Hayes Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz did their best Donald Trump impersonation. All three unleashing an unprecedented string of insults and attacks fit more for a barroom than a presidential debate stage.”

— Chris Hayes

52. “To desecrate the dead is to humiliate the living, and humiliation may be the most powerful and most underappreciated force in human affairs. The angry citizen can shout, and the terrified citizen can lock the doors, or flee, or move, or arm himself. But the humiliated citizen can neither express her feelings nor respond to the offense. For it is in the nature of humiliation that it happens at the hands of someone with greater power:.”

— Chris Hayes

53. “We were arguing about what was good to deal with making education fairer, diverse and more American. We were not arguing about where black scientists get a good education.”

— Chris Hayes

54. “Mass incarceration also played some role in reducing crime. A society that put, say, every man aged 18 to 24 under carceral supervision could expect to see a reduction in violent crime, since that population commits a disproportionate amount of it.”

— Chris Hayes

55. “I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.”

— Chris Hayes

56. “Where is the Marco Rubio bump everyone was promised? And it doesn’t look very good.”

— Chris Hayes

57. “Like Trump’s presidential bid, the Brexit campaign has been driven largely by fears of cultural penetration, immigrant invasion, and the genuine crisis of Middle East refugees dying to get into Europe, all channeled into a kind of inward-turning form of ethno-nationalism.”

— Chris Hayes

58. “I think a lot of Democrats I know, who will vote in the Democratic primary and vote for the Democratic nominee and later general, they go back and forth between two feelings. One is oh, my God, I’m terrified. Maybe this guy will be formidable in a general.”

— Chris Hayes

59. “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.”

— Chris Hayes

60. “Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It’s the biggest governing challenge I think we’ve ever faced.”

— Chris Hayes

61. “I can cite a chapter and verse of literature at the times saying Italians don’t speak our language, these folks coming from other places – it sounds identical to what you are saying about Muslims now. It really does.”

— Chris Hayes

62. “White fear is both a social fact and something burned into our individual neural pathways.”

— Chris Hayes

63. “The thing with that word “establishment” is a four-letter word in the 2016 politics, so toxic, so pejorative that pretty much no one wants to be associated with it.”

— Chris Hayes

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

— Chris Hayes

65. “There’s a line of thinking about Ted Cruz.”

— Chris Hayes

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

— Chris Hayes

67. “Chris Christie travelled to Ft. Worth, Texas, to give his blessing to a former rival who one week ago was approvingly discussing killing Muslim terrorists with bullets smeared in pig’s blood.”

— Chris Hayes

68. “People understand who Donald Trump is. There was a lawsuit against him for housing discrimination, racial discrimination against African-Americans that’s been in “The New York Times”. Decades ago with “The New York Times”.”

— Chris Hayes

69. “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.”

— Chris Hayes

70. “Politics is more than policy, right. Like, one thing that has occurred to me is Bernie Sanders is clearly a very adept and able politician, right. But he spent 30 years being a very adept and able politician in an almost entirely white state.”

— Chris Hayes

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

— Chris Hayes

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

— Chris Hayes

73. “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.”

— Chris Hayes

74. “A Republican primary race that has for months alternated between spectacle and abomination has over the past 20th hours ignited into a raging, full-blown dumpster fire. One stoke by a group of men who hope to become the most powerful person in the world.”

— Chris Hayes

75. “I’ve written a lot of movies with smoking, and the some of those movies absolutely gloried in the smoking and I wasn’t concerned when I wrote them who would see them and how those movies would especially affect young people.”

— Chris Hayes

76. “Tens of millions of dollars spent, all meant to get Jeb Bush elected president. He currently is polling on average at around 5%.”

— Chris Hayes

77. “According to statistics compiled by the Washington Post, in 2015 a full quarter of those shot and killed by police were suffering from mental illness.”

— Chris Hayes

78. “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.”

— Chris Hayes

79. “But if there’s one thing I’ve come to believe, it is that much of the cause of our current state of affairs lies in our tasking police with preserving order rather than with ensuring safety. Order is a slippery thing: it’s in the eyes of the beholder and the judgments of the powerful. Safety is clearer: it’s freedom from violence and intrusion.”

— Chris Hayes

80. “Simple demographics played a large role: The baby boom meant that beginning in the late 1960s, a huge number of men entered into their peak crime-committing years.”

— Chris Hayes

81. “There’s that issue of if you attack someone you don’t know where the votes are going to go.”

— Chris Hayes

82. “Order is a slippery thing: it’s in the eyes of the beholder and the judgments of the powerful. Safety is clearer: it’s freedom from violence and intrusion.”

— Chris Hayes

83. “We got the clearest picture of Donald Trump’s weaknesses and liabilities in a general election. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz finally gave up on trying to convince Republican primary voters that Trump is not a real conservative, attacks that have failed to resonate.”

— Chris Hayes

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

— Chris Hayes

85. “And in America, when the state cultivates such fear among relatively empowered white voters, it is enriching uranium for a political nuclear weapon. It.”

— Chris Hayes

86. “For years, right wing outlets like outlets like Fox News and talk radio have been telling their audience day after day that any information coming from outside of conservative media is not to be trusted.”

— Chris Hayes

87. “I think politically there is less juice to be squeezed out of that orange in the Democratic side. I mean, my feeling is your median Democratic voter, they’re angry at the banks or they’re not psyched about companies that outsource and things like that.”

— Chris Hayes

88. “Donald Trump got himself very far to the left. When he was considering running for president in 2000, he was for a 13 percent wealth tax on wealthy people to retire the national debt.”

— Chris Hayes

89. “Impossible is a word for other people to use when life scares them.”

— Chris Hayes

90. “There is no evidence that government under Republicans will shrink. It’s simply a question of what the government will do and who will benefit.”

— Chris Hayes

91. “The angry citizen can shout, and the terrified citizen can lock the doors, or flee, or move, or arm himself. But the humiliated citizen can neither express her feelings nor respond to the offense.”

— Chris Hayes

92. “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.”

— Chris Hayes

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

— Chris Hayes

94. “This is the central component of the white fear that sustains the Colony: the simple inability to recognize, deeply, fully totally, the humanity of those on the other side.”

— Chris Hayes

95. “As long as there have been people in California, there have been people obsessed with California’s water. Scientists say the state is at its driest point in half a millennium and as any Californians will tell you, it is not just their problem, it’s everyone’s problem.”

— Chris Hayes

96. “Whiteness is nonexistent, yet it confers enormous benefits. Blackness is a conjured fiction, yet it is so real it can kill.”

— Chris Hayes