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" 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. "

David Brock

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Come

Political

" 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. "

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

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

" Progressives want a different sort of media than what the Right wants. "

" 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. "

" It turns out that the Republican Party is not a hero to anyone but the racist, xenophobic caricature of a candidate that is Donald Trump. "

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

" 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. "

" We all know liberals and Democrats who look down on certain people, and there is such a thing as P.C. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think the candidate would be directly responsible for things that their supporters say, but when it gets to a certain level, they ought to say, 'Cut it out.' "

" Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable. "

" I'm a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Donald Trump intimidated the press and bullied the press. "

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

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

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

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

" I was a bad journalist. "

David Brock

Bad

Journalist

" Nobody ever said that Hillary's nomination would be unopposed or would be something that was foreordained. "

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