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" Charles and David Koch, two billionaire brothers, have been funding the infrastructure behind the Republican Party's right-ward shift since at least 1980. "

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" I want to have a media platform that is an honest broker and not just a mouthpiece for a political party. "

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" When most people find themselves running afoul of the law, they might change their ways. When the Koch brothers found themselves running afoul of the law, David Koch decided to run for office so that he could change the law. "

" If you want to keep the relationships you have, it's best not to talk about them. "

" The right can distort anything it wants. "

" I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.' "

" Aside from Donald Trump, the Clintons are the best for ratings and click-throughs. "

" The press are animals, and they need to be treated that way. "

" Progressive politics in America is an organizational disaster. "

" If I was a political mercenary, I would be using my talents in another line of work. "

" Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media. "

" When I founded Media Matters, there was another model, which would have been to call this the Brock Report. But I was much less interested in my own profile by that point, because I had already done that once, and it was not terribly fulfilling at the end of the day. "

" Fox prefers to focus on people who are doing bad - especially if they're Democrats, or environmentalists. "

" I was one of the most visible and vocal advocates of Secretary Hillary Clinton. "

" There's every financial incentive in the world to stay in the conservative movement forever. "

" It's not a vast right-wing conspiracy. It's a right-wing conglomerate. It's more sophisticated, it's well-financed, it's well known. "

" You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it. "

" What led to my change of views about the Clintons was working through the research and writing on the book on Hillary. "

" When a political advocacy network hires a former CIA analyst and starts tailing save-our-parks activists, you know there's something terribly dangerous happening to our democracy. "

" Trump's opinions on the Iraq War have been as erratic as his opinions on other foreign policy matters - such as his careless position to think more countries should acquire nuclear weapons. "

" I think the Republicans are trying to learn from their mistakes about attacks on women because the women's vote will backfire. "

" It's very important to understand that the 'Talk' piece was not an excerpt, it was an adaptation, which means I compressed different parts of the book and made a new piece. "

" I made the apologies that needed to be made, and so I didn't feel that Media Matters was a continuing form of saying I was sorry. "

" The pro-Hillary groups needed to quit fighting each other and get down to business fighting Republicans. "

" Republican presidential debates have become contests of who can terrify viewers the most. "

" I was a bad journalist. "

" Once you apologize, then the press wants you to get down on your knees and say you're sorry. They are not appeasable. "

" It is an outrage that Donald Trump can swear and scream on national television and no one says boo about how he presents himself. "

" The Right has been trying to take down Bill Clinton for 20 years. I know; I was there. "

" Progressives are not going to give up on facts. "

" It's important to know where candidates for president are getting their ideas. Where do these ideas come from, who funds them and who is shaping our political discussion? These are all questions that are important to a healthy democracy. "