Cenk Uygur Quotes
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Success is about persistence. You can only afford to be persistent in something you deeply enjoy.
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You can turn on Fox News almost any day and see some fictional story about voter fraud, the whole purpose of which is to limit voting by the poor, the elderly, college students and minorities.
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It was a terrible idea by the Democrats to support Hillary Clinton.
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The whole country doesn't like politicians, and young people like them even less.
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I find the Democratic party overall, on a macro level, to be institutionally corrupt.
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The reason people like the Young Turks is because we say things you're not allowed to say in Washington that are obviously true.
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Whenever people in Washington complain about spending cuts, they mean spending cuts that would affect defense contractors. They want to massively increase spending cuts everywhere else in the budget.
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Even the most ardent Obama supporter can't, in good conscience or sound mental state, argue that President Obama has changed the way Washington works. He's just played the game a little better, if you're being charitable on how you keep score on that count.
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I was a liberal Republican growing up in New Jersey. That doesn't exist anymore. If you're a Republican, you have to think that tax cuts for the rich are awesome, torture is awesome, moral war is awesome.
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In our system of government, the president is not supposed to be above the law. He is not a king; his word is not the law.
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Our number one agenda is to get money out of politics, to drain the swamp, but not in the way that Trump said. He stacked his cabinet full of Goldman Sachs guys.
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When's the last time CNN broke an important story or really made the government angry? I literally can't remember. That's because they're built to be inoffensive. They do the opposite of watchdog journalism. They simply pass on the government's message to their audience.
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When I was at MSNBC, I had issues with the Obama administration. I got told by the person who runs MSNBC... that Washington was not happy with my tone.
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I was at a White House Correspondents' Dinner, and I met Bobby Jindal, and we had a perfectly lovely twenty minute conversation.
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Obviously, the genes of women are flawed. They are poorly designed creatures who do not want to have sex nearly as often as needed for the human race to get along peaceably and fruitfully.
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If I get hungry, I get cranky on air.
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I know why politicians want to go on TV: that's where really old people are. And old people vote.
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I love doing talk shows.
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Unfortunately, a lot of the mainstream media television is so fake, so plastic, that it's really turned off the younger generation.
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How could anyone ever build a company if they didn't have investments? It doesn't make any sense.
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I want to interview Alec Baldwin.
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It is inconceivable that CNN's morning show or any other show could be anything but horribly boring. Why? Because they won't let anyone take risks.
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The Democratic Party takes huge amounts of cash from corporations and unions to vote a certain way.
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It is fascinating. No matter where I go, people recognize me.