“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.” PeopleJobsClassRichGrowingMiddleIndustryMiddle ClassRich PeopleManufacturingService Industry Author:Chris Hayes
“I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.” PeopleThinkingShouldDeserveAngryInjusticeWorthyOutrageousOutrage Author:Chris Hayes
“Meritocracy is our social ideal, particularly among good liberals. Equality of opportunity, but not of outcome. Not evaluating people by their [outside] features, but by their innate talent and drive.” PeopleOpportunitySocialTalentIdealsFeaturesOutcomesInnateMeritocracyEquality Of OpportunityInnate Talents Author:Chris Hayes
“I don't think polarization is some kind of grand distraction. It's real. People have different commitments, believe in different things and principles, different visions of the good life ... but there is also a degree to which all the really big, successful reform movements in the country had extremely bizarre ideological coalitions.” PeopleThinkingBelieveKindDifferentRealCountryBigsVisionPrinciplesSuccessfulMovementDegreesCommitmentReformDifferent ThingsGood LifeDistractionBizarreIdeologicalCoalitionsPolarizationReform Movements Author:Chris Hayes
“Impossible is a word for other people to use when life scares them.” PeopleUseImpossibleScare Author:Chris Hayes
“One of the main points of the philosophy behind parkour is being able to help people... To teach them they way themselves, to gain confidence in themselves, building up from simple moves to more complex things, to teach them that they are worthwhile people.” PeopleWayPhilosophyHelpingAbleMovingSimpleBehindsTeachBuildingGainsComplexesWorthwhileBuilding UpParkourGaining Confidence Author:Chris Hayes
“There's no real organised body, ... so through the internet people have spread their videos, spread photos, and spread word of a new urban movement.” PeopleRealBodyMovementInternetSpreadVideoUrbanOrganised Author:Chris Hayes
“If someone were to say, we should not letting Jews into the country, and people had a reaction against that, would that be the same thing as that kind of toxic political correctness tamping down honest discussion?” PeopleIfsShouldKindCountryPoliticalHonestJewReactionsDiscussionToxicPolitical CorrectnessCorrectness Author:Chris Hayes
“There was a man named Robert Dear who in court said he was a warrior for the babies, whose ex-wife talked about his Christian beliefs motivating his desire to attack and murder three people, including a police officer, in Colorado.That man is a Christian. He`s an avowed Christian. He appears to have acted on those Christian beliefs to undertake that act of violence.” PeopleMenSaidChristianDesireThreeBeliefWifeViolenceBabyMurderPoliceCourtIncludingDearWarriorOfficersExesPolice OfficerColoradoActs Of ViolenceEx Wife Author:Chris Hayes
“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.” PeopleLongHas BeensStatesProblemWaterHalfScientistCaliforniaObsessedMillenniumCalifornians Author:Chris Hayes
“Why Hollywood has killed so many movie stars with cigarette smoking, with the romanticization of it from John Wayne to Humphrey Bogart, all those people had cancer, died of it, and sold cigarettes their whole career.” PeopleWholeStarsCareersHollywoodDiedCancerSmokingCigaretteMovie StarWayneBogart Author:Chris Hayes
“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.” PeopleYoungWrittenConcernedSmoking Author:Chris Hayes
“Let`s talk conspiracy theories here. All of a sudden today - first of all, it`s the hunger games at this point.All these people, establishment people, whether it`s Bob Dole or others saying yes - you know, Orrin Hatch saying actually, I`d take [Donald] Trump over [Ted]Cruz.” PeopleKnowsFirstsTodayGamesTheoryTrumpHungerEstablishmentConspiracyBobConspiracy TheoryCruzSaying Yes Author:Chris Hayes
“I`ve heard this theory that this is basically Jeb`s [Bush] people trying to get their supporters to basically put the stake in Marco Rubio because if people are talking about accepting [Donald] Trump over [Ted] Cruz, what they`re really saying is Marco Rubio`s no longer viable.” PeopleIfsTryingTalkingAcceptingHeardTheoryTrumpStakesSupporterCruzMarcos Author:Chris Hayes
“People in the media often tend to assume it`s like Trump and [Ted] Cruz fighting over the same voters but when you look at the people who say they`re voting for Donald Trump he does as well with voters who describe themselves as moderate or liberal as he does with voters who themselves as very conservative. So, not all the Trump base would go to Cruz as a second choice.” PeopleWellsLooksDoeChoicesFightingMediaTrumpAssumingConservativeVotingVotersModeratesCruzSecond Choice Author:Chris Hayes
“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.” PeopleRunningLeftPresidentWealthTrumpTaxesPercentDebtWealthyRetiringConsideringNational Debt Author:Chris Hayes
“With all the talk of socialism among Democrats on the campaign trail lately, there are actually quite a few people on the right looking at how resources and capital are currently distributed in this country of ours and thinking, you know, there`s got to be a better way.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayCountryResourcesDemocratCampaignsSocialismTrailsBetter Ways Author:Chris Hayes
“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.” PeopleIfsWholeSocialismGod Love Author:Chris Hayes
“I remember reading an article about this idea of borderline personality disorder, which is reality producers try the find people who are sort of flamboyantly anti-social in these certain ways, because what happens when you put them around other people is they drag everyone down to their level. I feel like I`m watching this disgraceful race to the bottom.” PeopleWayFeelsTryingIdeasRealityHappensRememberCertainReadingSocialLevelsRacePersonalityBottomProducersDisorderArticlesDragDisgracefulBorderlineAnti SocialPersonality Disorders Author:Chris Hayes
“I`ve seen all this tussling about what is [Donald] Trump ideologically and Jim Carney said he`s a liberal and people saying, look, he`s winning moderates. Chris Christie is an example of this.” PeopleLooksSaidWinningExampleTrumpModeratesChristie Author:Chris Hayes
“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".” PeopleNew YorkTrumpDecadesDiscriminationAfrican AmericanHousingNew York TimesLawsuitRacial Discrimination Author:Chris Hayes
“The disturbing video taken by Keith Lamont Scott`s wife showing the moment her husband was killed by police in Charlotte provides a sobering window into the high level of compliance that people of color feel they need to maintain in their interactions with police.” PeopleNeedsFeelsMomentsLevelsTakenWifeColorHusbandWindowPoliceVideoInteractionDisturbingHigh LevelComplianceKeithCharlotte Author:Chris Hayes
“In the case of Philando Castile, we believe he was complying, it might have been precipitated by a police officer telling him to open the glove compartment.We have other examples in which people have met the same fate when they appear to be complying. Yet the way that the system tends to operate and the way the police when you talk to them view that situation is they are looking for things that trigger their perception of threat and that`s a highly subjective judgment.” PeopleWayBelieveHas BeensMightViewsSituationCasesFateExampleMetsJudgmentPerceptionPoliceThreatOfficersMight Have BeenSubjectiveTriggersGlovesPolice OfficerComplying Author:Chris Hayes
“The other theory of the case - and it`s not just one that people opposed to him politically believe, but also people who share the Republican Party`s beliefs or conservative, but don`t like Donald Trump, is that he`s fundamentally a narcissist who has become addicted to the attention, is sort of compulsively driven by attention, and this has given him an outlet for that attention, and crucially doesn`t actually care about the party that he is nominally representing.” PeopleBelieveCareBeliefGivenPartyAttentionCasesShareTheoryTrumpRepublicanConservativeDrivenJust OneRepublican PartyOutletsRepresentingNarcissist Author:Chris Hayes
“All the people that you see on television defending Donald Trump have not been drafted into it.” PeopleTelevisionTrump Author:Chris Hayes
“We have different expectations for different groups of people. We tend to modulate the degree with which we're forgiving or punitive depending on how well we know folks, or how much we consider them peers, or how much social capital we've invested in them. That has to do with race, class, gender, and socioeconomic status. We have a tendency to bend over backwards to forgive folks we think of as part of "the us." The question of who we define as "the us" is a lot of what constitutes how we punish who we punish.” PeopleThinkingDifferentExpectationsForgivingGenderBackwards Author:Chris Hayes
“The degree to which I try to be honest that there's some Donald Trump in all of us. The seduction of the promise of order, the politics of white fear, it's not just some other group of uneducated white people who are susceptible to those appeals. It's everyone. And not just white people, frankly. All Americans have this susceptibility to a politics of fear and order that I think we have to be really honest about.” PeopleThinkingTryingHonestPromiseBeing HonestSeductionUneducated Author:Chris Hayes
“I've had a dozen people tell me, maybe more, 'What would have happened if Michael Brown had shot and killed Darren Wilson? Do you think he would be free right now? Do you think he would not have been charged by now?' People just see this manifest double-standard in front of them that's coming at the long line of a whole bunch of grievances that have built up over time because of the dynamics of Ferguson and frankly, the dynamics of race in America more broadly.” PeopleIfsThinkingLongHas BeensWholeWould BeAmericaLinesRaceHappenedFrontsRight NowStandardsShotsBuiltBunchBrownManifestDozenDynamicsGrievanceWilsonDouble StandardRace In AmericaLong LinesDarrenFerguson Author:Chris Hayes
