Cenk Uygur Quotes

I had this perception based on my own frustrations with Washington, but I didn't realize until I launched this campaign how much people are looking for a new generation of leadership and a new approach in Washington.

I'm going to tell my contestants: Be Bernie Sanders. Be the person people want and love.

People are gravitating towards Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders because they are doing their own thing. I think people are trying to cut out the middle man and just get to the source and get away from Washington politics.

Like Diogenes, when millennials went on their pursuit to find the one honest man in politics, it was obvious that man was Bernie Sanders.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.

There's this perception of D.C. as a boring town run by old white men, but in reality, there are incredibly young people in charge of really important things.

People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.

Change very often comes to Washington, not from Washington.

When I ran for the Senate, I ran to bring change to Washington, not simply to become a woman senator.

At 80 million, millennials, born between 1980 and 2000, are the largest generation in history. Yet they are a demographic Congress has historically either taken for granted or ignored altogether.

As a newcomer to politics, I knew in my bones that we as a country were better than what we see coming out of Washington. And we are.

I think what is important, whether you are Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, is to embrace and own your identity. I think that's not political. That's good in life, and it certainly is the best way to be when you are running for office. If you don't do that, the voters will see through it.

I think sometimes with politics, young people especially have become disillusioned with it, because they can't relate to it, there's a lot of snobbery and people are a lot older.

He kind of makes me ill, David Cameron. I liked the old-fashioned Tory - like Winston Churchill, who had style. But Cameron's like a new breed - computer-generated. I hate it.

I have written time and again about the damage the Republican Party has done to itself with the millennial generation.

You can be both progressive and want to get things done - they're not mutually exclusive and that's what I bring.

You are who you are, and in politics, if you stay who you are, you do better.

Young people overwhelmingly supported Bernie because he wasn't the standard politician. He let his hands flail around as he passionately spoke about the issues that sincerely matter to him. He was real.

In my heart of hearts, I truly believe that Senator Bernie Sanders is the right man to lead this country.

Millennials don't believe that government is the most effective in solving problems, and that lack of faith in big government is an opportunity for Republicans to win over millennials.

So, you know, I actually don't think it's going to be that hard to spread the message to people that their leadership - not alone John Cornyn, but including John Cornyn in a big way - is failing us.

There are two things you can do in politics: you can sit around waiting for things to happen, or you can start doing them.

All I can do is pay attention, listen to what people in Minnesota are saying and do everything I can to bring that voice to Washington.