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Chris Matthews
American
Journalist
About the author
We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#World
#March
#Iraq
#University
Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Now
#Writing
#Books
#Reading
#Word
Someone needs to talk sense to the president. But these people are not world travelers. This president, much as I like him, had all the opportunities in the world.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Talk
#People
#World
#President
#Needs
#Sense
The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Policy
#President
#Power
#Democrats
#Foreign policy
The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Difference
Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Israel
#Enemies
#Terrorism
They were unable to stand up and say: "Here's our policy. It's Unite the world against terrorism."
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Policy
#World
#Terrorism
Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Law
#Road
#Terror
#Unity
#Order
#Rules
We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Israel
#Friend
Well, the right-wing policy with regard to Israel - the people who don't want to deal with Arafat, who don't want a Palestinian state - the whole sort of right-wing view is consistent with the view toward Iraq. It's the same policy and the same people.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Want
#Right
#People
#Policy
#State
#Israel
#Iraq
Why didn't we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically?
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Thought
You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I don't like him and I'm gonna get him, whether you back me or not.'
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
You know, there were 29 Democratic votes for censure in the Senate. And if the Republicans had any sense, they would have censured him before the '98 midterm election, and they would have won the election.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Sense
#Senate
#Republicans
#Censure
Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Now
#God
#World
#Country
#America
Just look at who won the third debate between Bush and Gore. I knew Bush won, because people liked him more. People just didn't like Gore. But all the journalists thought Gore won big, he cleaned the guy's clock.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#People
#Thought
#Debate
We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Government
#Opposition
C'mon. He'd be embarrassing upstairs at the White House. So I think she'd have a hard time. I think a woman president would have to be very conservative to get elected.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Time
#President
#Conservative
#Woman
And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#War
#Numbers
#Fact
And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together. It's a combination of motives.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#People
#Support
#Israel
#Iraq
#Motives
Five years from now, 10 years from now, there's going to be a huge Islamic population in the world, they're going to be nationalistic, they're going to be religious, and they're going to be militant.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Now
#Years
#World
#Population
#Religious
I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Reason
#War
I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Right
#People
#Responsibility
#Question
#Questions
I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.'
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Life
#President
#Questions
#Lawyers
I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Time
#People
#Will
#World
#Today
#Religion
I mean, the idea that Bar could have sent him off on a Grand Tour. But he wasn't the least bit interested. Why? Why isn't he interested in the world? Because here's the bad news for him: He's in the world now.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Now
#World
#Idea
#News
I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Comfort
#Sense
#Trying
I'm not just gonna go after the black Jesse Jackson they all want to make fun of, but I know the wrong people are gonna laugh at that. I don't want to play to that crowd. I don't.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Want
#People
#Fun
#Play
#Wrong
It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#American
#Interest
#Party
Once it was suggested that Saddam Hussein might give his weaponry to terrorists, or might use weapons himself in the region, then it became hard for the Democrats to say, 'Well, that can't happen.'
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Weapons
#Democrats
Keep your enemies in front of you.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Enemies
My audience is much more center right, or centrist.
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Right
I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'
Chris Matthews,
American
Journalist
#Work
#Man
#Old
#Mother
#Job
#College
#Summer