Chris Matthews Quotes

I've thought Cheney was scary for a long time. Now I know I was right to be nervous.

Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.

Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

Naturally the common people don't want war ... but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

[Politicians and political party] leaders themselves, though they originally may have meant nothing but their own aggrandizement, become many of them in time the dupes of their own sophistry, and are as eager for this great reformation as the weakest and foolishest of their followers.

I don’t think you’d call the President political.

Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.

Of course the people don't want war... It is the leaders...who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along...all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

I don't understand politics at all.

The BJP believes in building its individual strength.

Tampering with humanity is pretty scary.

Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as a justification.

Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all.

Ideology is like breath: you never smell your own.

Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird!

He [Barak Obama]'s a guy from Chicago. He doesn't know what the hell to do. He's got a big pipe with a hole in it.

We know that England is crying for a leader, and that leader has emerged in the person of the greatest Englishman I have ever known, Sir Oswald Mosley... When the history of Europe comes to be written I can assure you that his name will not be second to either Mussolini or Hitler.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.

Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.

We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.

If you understand liberals at all, you know that they'll never agree to market-based solutions for ideological reasons and because an expanding dependency class is their most essential power source.