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" I think the Democratic Party has to learn how to be a party of opposition. "

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" 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. "

" Our nation marches closer to Trumpism each day, a path paved with reckless Tweets and the normalization of the ugly and the absurd. "

" Trump's rise to power, fueled by hatred and portending crisis, threatens to eviscerate our constitutional system of government. "

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

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

" I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media. "

" Certainly going back to 2008 during the primary, Secretary Clinton was subjected to various forms of sexism - overt, subtle - that were detrimental. Fortunately, Senator Obama was not subjected to something similar; the culture seemed to tolerate sexism and not racism. We ought not tolerate either. "

" It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth. "

" All of these attacks on Secretary Clinton, at the end of the day, are character attacks. "

" 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. "

" I didn't say a bad thing about 'Politico' in my book. "

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

" At the end of the day, I think Donald Trump will be the great unifier of the Democratic Party. "

" When you imagine the Koch brothers, it's hard not to think of the 1983 film 'Trading Places,' which featured as its villains a pair of brothers, commodity brokers named Randolph and Mortimer Duke. "

" 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. "

" Hillary Clinton's loss has exposed the lack of Democratic power in this country at all levels. "

" I'm an incredibly hard worker, I'm incredibly tenacious, and I'm incredibly detail-oriented. "

" 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. "

" During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the 'New York Times' to keep them accountable. "

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

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

" When it comes to Republican debates, fibs and fits come first; facts come last. "

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

" Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public. "