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“I'm so glad we had that storm last week.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Storm #Lasts #Week
“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.”
-- Chris Matthews

#America #People #Profit
“America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.”
-- Chris Matthews

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

#Country #Thinking #Giving
“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.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Retirement #Needs #Looks
“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.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Emotional #Desire #Agendas
“Every party and every movement tends to need a hero.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Party #Hero #Needs
“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.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Ideas #Spending #Taxes
“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?”
-- Chris Matthews

#Running #Talking #White
“I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .”
-- Chris Matthews

#Running #Thinking #Politician
“The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Thinking #Years #Needs
“Paying tax is not a punishment. It's a responsibility.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Responsibility #Punishment #Paying Taxes
“The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Office #President #United States
“People don`t like getting dirty or living in an environment that`s been contaminated and is covered in hazardous waste.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Dirty #People #Waste
“There ought to be an onus on the people that want a law, rather than people that don`t need a new law.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Law #People #Needs
“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.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Smart #Moving #Thinking
“Presidents aren`t supposed to spit, at least not obviously.”
-- Chris Matthews

#President #Spit
“I used to love hand raising.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Hands #Used #Used To Love
“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.”
-- Chris Matthews

#War #Guy #Presidential
“It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.”
-- Chris Matthews

#People #Negative #Needs
“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.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Believe #Government #People
“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.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Mother #Mean #President
“Nothing is as important as the biggest day in your life.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Important
“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.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Fun #Boys #Night
“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.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Party #Political #Literature
“My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Mean #Thrill #Legs
“Everything he's done is clean as a whistle. He's never not only broken any law, he's never done anything wrong.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Law #Broken #Done
“Keep you enemies in front of you.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Life #Enemy
“And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together. It's a combination of motives.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Israel #Iraq #People
“We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely.”
-- Chris Matthews

#Israel #Roles #Honest

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