Chris Matthews Quotes

I'm so glad we had that storm last week.

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

My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often.

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

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.

Everything he's done is clean as a whistle. He's never not only broken any law, he's never done anything wrong.

Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.

Whether the Bushes, or whoever they are, they always end up in the end with the money and the ability to really blow away anybody who dares challenge them.

If you think what you see on TV is prejudiced, it is. Follow your instincts.

While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.

I don't sense an [Barack] Obama party. I think politics is transactional for him.

The fact is he [John F.Kennedy] always had to have somebody around besides Jackie [Kennedy]. Whatever their relationship, he wanted company. I think it gets back to all those years in a hospital bed.

I`m surprised people are that hopeful about what government can do, because if you believe in socialism, society can run a pretty decent government, it can provide services, it can regulate the economy effectively.

I forgot he [Barack Obama] was black tonight for an hour.

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

I think in places like Pennsylvania, there`s folks who want our next president to talk like a hawk, but fly like a dove.

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.

The overall campaign launch is designed to break through the clutter and reach out to consumers. At the end of the day, consumers are the ones who benefit from the convenience and value never before seen in a free checking account.

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.

I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was also a man of deep conviction.

Keep you enemies in front of you.

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

It does look like it's almost like South Africa to this extent: You have a white - what's the word - feeble minority. It's losing its majority status. And it says, the Republican Party, 'We can only get so many white votes. So, we got to reduce the votes of others.' It does look that way. Only the - maybe you're non-partisan, but only Republicans have pushed this in these 31 states. No Democratic legislature. You gotta look at the pattern here. You talk about profiling. I'm sorry, Republicans do this stuff.

The real difference between relationship politics and transactional politics is loyalty. [Barack] Obama doesn't seem to expect it.

The FBI had a right to review that. And they did and they found Hillary Clinton not in any criminal violation.