Top 70 Cenk Uygur Quotes

If I’m off the teleprompter, management doesn’t get to see what I’m going to say.

The American media is delivering nothing but fakeness.

The devil I know is the establishment, and I’m gonna beat that devil.

I find the Democratic party overall, on a macro level, to be institutionally corrupt.

Do you see Fox News go after Republican officials all the time? No, you almost never see that. You see them do that to Trump administration officials almost never.

It is fascinating. No matter where I go, people recognize me.

In politics, name recognition matters a lot.

TV is a wasteland. It’s a bunch of news actors that read off a prompter.

I had one of the best nights of my life at Mardi Gras.

I know why politicians want to go on TV: that’s where really old people are. And old people vote.

I look forward to fighting Nancy Pelosi, and I look forward to defeating Nancy Pelosi in getting the Green New Deal passed.

There is no greater threat to Washington, D.C., than Bernie Sanders, and they know it.

I think President Obama is clearly, you know, a Republican. I know, because in the 1990s I was a Republican, and he’s way to the right of me, and I’ve hardly changed any positions.

I want to interview Alec Baldwin.

The establishment thinks we’re the bad guys, and we’re the radicals, but what they don’t realize is we’re actually the last line of defense. After us, it’s the pitchforks.

These Hillary supporters just drove a car into a giant ditch named Trump. They let Trump win. They let him become the most powerful man on Earth. Sorry, you’re not getting the wheel again after driving into the ditch.

Success is about persistence. You can only afford to be persistent in something you deeply enjoy.

I made $70,000 in the 1990s, when I was a corporate lawyer. I didn’t see that salary again until I was on MSNBC.

Like Diogenes, when millennials went on their pursuit to find the one honest man in politics, it was obvious that man was Bernie Sanders.

I know that a lot of people love to say that polls are wrong or don’t matter, and from time to time they are – it depends on who they are polling.

I think our politicians are bought by the highest bidder and that until we clean up our election system, then we cannot make progress on any of the issues. That’s what drives me – we must restore our democracy.

I’m interested in producing more TV shows.

When I want to relax, it’s nine out of 10 times TV or movies. I love going to the movies and grabbing popcorn or watching ‘Mad Men,’ ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ and ‘Breaking Bad.’

I think a progressive is someone who cares to expand freedom for everybody.

Never, ever get on an American Airlines flight. They will make you wait four hours, and then, when you complain about it, you will be kicked off your flight, and they will rob you of your money.

Why do millennials like Bernie Sanders so much? I love that this is a mystery to Washington. It’s the authenticity, stupid.

Unfortunately, a lot of the mainstream media television is so fake, so plastic, that it’s really turned off the younger generation.

I think the rise of progressives is the biggest storyline there is, whether it’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Kara Eastman or Randy Bryce, Richard Ojeda – real populist progressives that are willing to actually fight for the progressive message rather than the lukewarm establishment Democrats.

You can’t win a congressional seat unless you have money. Even if you do, it’s tick-tock, tick-tock until someone with more money beats you.

Millennials are much more informed than they get credit for, and many are more politically knowledgeable than older generations.

The reason people like the Young Turks is because we say things you’re not allowed to say in Washington that are obviously true.

Liberty is the most important thing.

Cable news, by its very nature, by its formula, is very guest-heavy.

I hire a lot of hosts, reporters, producers, and I hire people who care about the news.

I don’t have to do something I’m not comfortable with just to be on television.

The older generation grew up on blow-dried anchors, plastic politicians, and an ocean of pretense. Realness seems unvarnished and unpolished to them.

I think ‘progressive’ is different than ‘liberal’ – I know a lot of people use them interchangeably – but I think I’m far more progressive than I am liberal.

I think President Obama is not progressive. And I know a lot of people hate to hear that; it breaks their heart. But that’s the reality. It’s not in his nature. His nature is pro-establishment. If he had a wrestling nickname, it would be The Establishment.

When you lose power, then all of a sudden, the press are lions. When you have power, the press are lambs.

I am not in the camp of ‘Russia has to be our enemy, and they have to be that way forever,’ and I think sometimes we fight about from the past.

Phil Griffin, who happens to be the head of MSNBC, is not a liberal or progressive. I worked at MSNBC; I talked to Phil Griffin many times. I know Phil Griffin. He is not remotely progressive. All he cares about is success in his own career.

I was a liberal Republican growing up in New Jersey. That doesn’t exist anymore. If you’re a Republican, you have to think that tax cuts for the rich are awesome, torture is awesome, moral war is awesome.

If you don’t watch ‘The Young Turks,’ you don’t know me at all. Whereas no one watches Anderson Cooper, but everyone knows him.

Our number one agenda is to get money out of politics, to drain the swamp, but not in the way that Trump said. He stacked his cabinet full of Goldman Sachs guys.

I was always kind of a loudmouth to the point where I annoyed my teachers and friends.

I was at a White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and I met Bobby Jindal, and we had a perfectly lovely twenty minute conversation.

If I get hungry, I get cranky on air.

I’ve criticized myself over the years.

You can turn on Fox News almost any day and see some fictional story about voter fraud, the whole purpose of which is to limit voting by the poor, the elderly, college students and minorities.

TV has made everyone so vanilla it’s nearly impossible to tell one anchor apart from another.

Let’s establish that no one in Washington actually cares about balancing the budget.

Trump is a maniac.

I love doing talk shows.

The right wing has an ecosystem that is funded by billionaires who want tax cuts.

I’ve defended the Clintons longer than I’ve been a liberal, but I don’t have any nostalgia for that.

The whole country doesn’t like politicians, and young people like them even less.

I didn’t want to be a senator, but I considered it anyway.

Sixty-nine percent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was personally responsible for 9/11 when we invaded Iraq. That is the biggest failure of the media I have ever seen.

The Democratic Party takes huge amounts of cash from corporations and unions to vote a certain way.

How could anyone ever build a company if they didn’t have investments? It doesn’t make any sense.

Obviously, the genes of women are flawed. They are poorly designed creatures who do not want to have sex nearly as often as needed for the human race to get along peaceably and fruitfully.

If I’m working on the Internet, you know, it’s different than working on television.

Obama spent the first two years of his administration practicing political unilateral disarmament.

I want to steer the national conversation in the right direction, from my point of view. I want to get under Robert Gibbs’ skin and Rahm Emanuel’s skin and Barack Obama’s skin.

Whenever people in Washington complain about spending cuts, they mean spending cuts that would affect defense contractors. They want to massively increase spending cuts everywhere else in the budget.

Because Bernie is going to bring in progressives and not lobbyists and people who are pro-corporate… for the establishment of the Democratic party, Bernie Sanders was more dangerous than Donald Trump.

You think that the CNN hosts can aggressively challenge government officials? I don’t think so. It doesn’t look that way at all. And of course, when you get to Fox News, they’re a whole different animal: they’re purely propaganda.

When I was at MSNBC, I had issues with the Obama administration. I got told by the person who runs MSNBC… that Washington was not happy with my tone.

I didn’t just graduate from Stanford with a really good idea and a good dad.

I don’t want to negotiate with the power brokers in Washington; I want to tear them down.