“When you think about the current present value of the fossil fuel reserves that are on the books, the current fossil fuel companies, the last time that that much wealth was at stake was when the South fought the Civil War.” ThinkingBookWarLastsValuesWealthCompanySouthCurrentsCivil WarFuelStakesReservesLast TimeFossilsFossil Fuel Author:Chris Hayes
“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.” ThinkingWorldWayViewsBasketballNewsArguingPushingDiscoveringQuestioningEnjoyableDiscovering The WorldPushing Back 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
“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
“Once you start thinking about growth of economy, it's hard to think about anything else.” ThinkingHardGrowthEconomy Author:Chris Hayes
“One young man asked me a simple question that gets to the core of what we`re talking about. He said, do you think the police would ever treat you the way they treat me? And the answer is, no. And that is wrong. And that has to change in this city.” ThinkingMenWaySaidYoungSimpleAnswersCitiesTalkingTreatsPoliceCoreYoung Man Author:Chris Hayes
“I think I was a militant smoker, and I felt hemmed in by a wall of political correctness and I think I purposely and militantly put the smoking scenes in the movies.” ThinkingPoliticalFeltWallSceneSmokingPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessMilitantSmokers Author:Chris Hayes
“No one`s dropped a cent - there`s no negative ads up against Donald Trump in Iowa which is crazy to think about.” ThinkingCrazyTrumpNegativeAdsCentsIowa Author:Chris Hayes
“I think is interesting is that term is so pejorative or understood to be so pejorative and there`s a real difference between how Republicans, it seems to me, think of that and how Democrats do. I don`t think Democrats feel as negatively about the Democratic Party establishment as Republicans do feel about their party`s establishment.” ThinkingFeelsRealSeemsTermDifferencesInterestingPartyRepublicanUnderstoodDemocraticDemocratEstablishmentDemocratic Party Author:Chris Hayes
“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.” ThinkingMeanFeelingsSidesCompanyAngryDemocraticVotersOrangeJuiceMedian 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
“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.” ThinkingKnowsTwoFeelingsGuyVoteDemocraticDemocratPrimariesTerrifiedThis GuyBack And ForthFormidable Author:Chris Hayes
“I think it`s fair to say there`s some significant portion of the community that doesn`t feel they can take the Charlotte police at their word.” ThinkingFeelsCommunityFairsPoliceSignificantPortionsCharlotte Author:Chris Hayes
“I think that`s a plausible strategy. But I also think there is a case to be made that [Hillary] Clinton actually in some ways is best served by almost ignoring him and the sort of marginal voters that there are to get for Hillary Clinton are voters who already think poorly of Donald Trump and are not sold on her.” ThinkingWayMadeCasesTrumpStrategyClintonVotersPlausible Author:Chris Hayes
“Generally the impulse to find justice through punitive measures can be a kind of quicksand. What James Whitman, the scholar I cite in the chapter of my book, talks about as an urge to level down, I think you see that everywhere. We're going to be a punitive society, so we might as well level out that punitiveness. Bankers and college swim stars and everyone face that same kind of wrath.” ThinkingKindBookJusticeCollegeImpulseSwimScholarCitingQuicksand 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
“Twilight of the Elites main thesis has been borne out far past what I could ever have imagined. The major idea was that these series of elite failures created this crisis of authority which was fertilizing distrust in the pillars and institutions of American society. In the absence of that authority there's this vacuum which is easily filled by authoritarian solutions, and I think that's exactly what happened.” ThinkingPastAuthoritySolutionsCrisisAbsenceTwilightDistrustThesis 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
“Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.” ThinkingFacesChallengesClimateClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingGoverningChallenges We Face 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
