Chris Hayes Quotes

When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk.

By the way, I have trouble listening to what [Cheney] says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he’s talking, but my response is this: he’s just angry because the president doesn’t shoot old men in the face. But by the way, when he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?

There is going to come a day when everyone here is going to need keen observation and wit to ridicule George W. Bush. But when that day comes, all we're going to have are tired puns and goofy looks. Because as you would say, we're suffering from the soft bigotry of low expectorations.

In a new interview, Herman Cain said that if Rick Perry were an ice cream flavor, he'd be 'Rocky Road.' I don't know, Perry's not really any flavor of ice cream. He's just the brain freeze part.

I know a lot about Canadian politics. I lived in Canadian bars for six years.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.

I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice.

I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.

I suppose we should all sing "Bail to the Chief.

[Addressing Robert Peel, 1788-1850:] The Right Honorable Gentleman's smile is like the silver fittings on a coffin.

I never met a politician that I couldn’t take a poke at.

Oh, what a lovely title, ex-president

We make fun of our leaders.

I've been making fun of Donald Trump - we all have - for 10 years, and just bringing up his name... I mean, even if you're supportive of Donald Trump, there's still a lot to make fun of.

All I can say is I'm proud to be Canadian.

At the end of the day, what would be a Canadian sensibility? Is it Michael Ondaatje? Alice Munro? Is Margaret Atwood more Canadian than Neil Bissoondath?

No one is better at deprecating President Trump than President Trump - just ask him.