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" The right can distort anything it wants. "

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" I have conservative relatives. I maintain some relationships with some conservatives going back to the 1990s... Not in any meaningful way. "

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

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

" 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 became a conservative for the first dozen years of my professional life in Berkeley, Calif., and it was a reaction against political correctness, so I get it. "

" The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism. "

" 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. "

" The Trump administration is shaping up to be one of the most corrupt since the Gilded Age. "

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

" You never discount a demagogue. "

" 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. "

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

" Republicans tend to be more steadfast in their allegiance, and Democrats read one headline in the 'New York Times,' and the sky is suddenly falling. "

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

" There's certainly an attitude in some measure of the conservative movement that I believe won't accept the legitimacy of any Democratic president, and I think Obama did fall victim to that - witness the 'birthers.' "

" 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. "

" Writing at the 'American Spectator' in the 1990s, we threw everything we thought would stick at President Clinton. "

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

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

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

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

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

" We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that's what we're going to do. "

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

" I'm comfortable on the progressive side. But I'm still more pitched at fighting the Right than I am about building a progressive platform for the future. It's fair to say that that conversation doesn't interest me as much. "