Cenk Uygur Quotes
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When I want to relax, it's nine out of 10 times TV or movies. I love going to the movies and grabbing popcorn or watching 'Mad Men,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Breaking Bad.'
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It was a terrible idea by the Democrats to support Hillary Clinton.
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Success is about persistence. You can only afford to be persistent in something you deeply enjoy.
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The whole country doesn't like politicians, and young people like them even less.
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TV has made everyone so vanilla it's nearly impossible to tell one anchor apart from another.
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I find the Democratic party overall, on a macro level, to be institutionally corrupt.
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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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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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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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It is fascinating. No matter where I go, people recognize me.
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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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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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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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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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How could anyone ever build a company if they didn't have investments? It doesn't make any sense.
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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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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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I want to interview Alec Baldwin.
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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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Imagine a progressive president fighting to fix the insane economic inequality in the country or to end the senseless drug war or, best of all, battling to get money out of politics. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
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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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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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If I get hungry, I get cranky on air.