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Chris Matthews is an American television journalist and political commentator, recognized for his tenure as the host of 'Hardball with Chris Matthews' on MSNBC since 1997. With a career spanning several decades, he has been a central figure in covering political events and presidential campaigns.

Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

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Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think

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The Hardball Handbook: How to Win at Life

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“The author, at the time a Carter speechwriter in the 1980 campaign, showed visible distress at his boss's performance and was warned by a friend in the traveling press, lest he become the story.”

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“He's cutting the heart out of the American dream to own a home and have a good job ... and still he's popular Tip O'Neill on Ronald Reagan”

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“He's a beautiful man, but I'm sorry he doesn't agree with my political philosophy Tip O'Neill on Ronald Reagan”

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“Tip, if I had a ticket to heaven and you didn't have one too, I would give mine away and go to hell with you. Ronald Reagan”

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“The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business.”

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“For Reagan,for his contemporaries, and many in the generations after them, the word Munich was understood as code for any nation's stepping back from necessary toughness”

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“I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.”

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“In the world of late-night comics, Letterman made us feel any hometown boy from Indianapolis could poke fun at celebrities and politicians and do it right to their faces.”

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“Presidents aren`t supposed to spit, at least not obviously.”

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“I used to love hand raising.”

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“Wouldn`t it be great for some of the Republican candidates to stand up to the money guys and say, if you want a presidential nominee who will do what the Bushes did, go from war to war, look elsewhere.”

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“It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.”

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“All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution.”

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“Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.”

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“Stop calling me communist. Stop calling the rest of us communists. You`ve got to stand up for what you believe should be the American government`s spirit, not what you`re just attacking people`s credibility.”

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“Natural-born American means you don`t have to be naturalized. You were born to an American mother, like President Obama, no matter where you were born.”

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“I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.'”

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“I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'”

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“I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience.”

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“It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank.”

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“Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush won, because people liked him more. People just didn't like Gore. But all the journalists thought Gore won big, he cleaned the guy's clock.”

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“Once it was suggested that Saddam Hussein might give his weaponry to terrorists, or might use weapons himself in the region, then it became hard for the Democrats to say, 'Well, that can't happen.'”

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“Someone needs to talk sense to the president. But these people are not world travelers. This president, much as I like him, had all the opportunities in the world.”

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“The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.”

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“We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.”

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“You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.”

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“You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I don't like him and I'm gonna get him, whether you back me or not.'”

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“Nothing is as important as the biggest day in your life.”

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“People do have a - people, unlike politicians, are allowed to change their minds. People are allowed to look back and say, you know what, all things considered, I don't think that was the smart move.”

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“There ought to be an onus on the people that want a law, rather than people that don`t need a new law.”

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“People don`t like getting dirty or living in an environment that`s been contaminated and is covered in hazardous waste.”

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“The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.”

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“Paying tax is not a punishment. It's a responsibility.”

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“America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.”

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“I think we all [americans] think we're a special country. But the question is, what - what call does that give us?”

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“I look back to the Great Depression, and what Roosevelt was able to do in very difficult times, to get Social Security through back in the time when it was seen as - well, it wasn't what it is today. It was sort of a last-ditch, if you really need it, you got it, but, today, it's much more a part of your retirement program.”

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“Medicare, getting through that in the '60s, after Kennedy's assassination, where there was such an emotional desire to do something to carry on his agenda.”

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“Every party and every movement tends to need a hero.”

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“I am no longer going to go along with this idea that we're going to keep spending and borrowing and taking over and raising taxes, that I'm going to do everything I can to change things.”

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“What happens to conservatives when they get near the White House? How come they only seem to be talking the good talk at, say, the Senate level, when they don't have to run the show?”

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“I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .”

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“The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.”

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“We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.”

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“My audience is much more center right, or centrist.”

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“You can't be loved for long if you're not feared.”

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“Any jackass can talk about bombing Iran.”

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“The big lie is that the people who make a lot of money were the only ones that worked hard.”

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“Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.”

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“President Barack Obama benefits from the shared experience and wisdom of top national security and foreign policy advisers, many of them career professionals.”

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“I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I mean that's what they're selling.”

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Born: December 17, 1945
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