Chris Hayes Quotes

Brexit is a harbinger for Trump, really.

The Brexit vote, the presidential elections in the U.S., a number of the other regional political movements - that's not a flash in the pan.

The issue for me is not just Brexit. It is beyond Brexit - how you conduct politics and the veering towards populism and English nationalism.

Brexit is not only not just about left and right. Brexit is about expertise.

During the Brexit campaign there was a deficit of outrage.

Brexit is not going to solve the causes of Brexit.

I've become a lot more politicised because of Brexit.

I would delete Donald Trump. I would delete Hillary Clinton. I would delete the man who was responsible for Brexit.

Britain's withdrawal from the E.U., like Donald Trump's proposal to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, is based on a false belief in self-reliance.

Brexit was the first brick that was knocked out of the establishment wall.

The arguments in the Brexit vote and in the American presidential campaign are about the same. In a friendly way, may I also give some advice to the American people to make the right choice when the moment comes.

I think the Brexit vote in Great Britain informing this populist movement of nationalism is kind of a global thing, and I think it's no particular political party's fault. People have been left behind, and in America, we're used to going forward. It's always like we're going to be better; the next generation's going to be better.

Trump is a product of a seething populism and nationalism that is the driving political force.

The Brexit and Trump phenomena are informed by similar forces and social and economic movements. I think it's been really stressful; it's been really scary.

Brexit has acted as a catalyst encouraging more people to think and vote outside of traditional party loyalties.

Brexit has changed everything in British politics - it has blown open a cosy, zombie-like closed world of Westminster parliamentary politics. It has broken open the traditional line between left and right, which was already an exhausted tradition.

When it comes to something like Brexit, I am part of the liberal-media London bubble, and so, to me, voting to leave was madness. My perspective was that it was cutting off your nose to spite your face.

The English, being the most practical people in the world, came up with parliamentary democracy and codified football and Cadbury's Creme Egg. And yet they voted for Brexit.

Brexit has divided the country. It has divided political parties. And it has divided families too.

Fuck the EU!

Populism is strong in places with weak party systems because political parties exist precisely to form governments as well as legitimate oppositions. When identity politics predominates, populists will prosper.

Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union.

We've seen with Brexit and other things that there's a dark impulse to be petulant and frustrated with complicated solutions.

Nexit is the best thing that can happen to us.

The Brexit campaign was transformed from a fringe eccentricity into a mass movement by a handful of people who decided to make it into an argument about identity.