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I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#audience #bus #center #comfort #create

Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#book #books #collaborating #embarrassment #i

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#defend #democrats #down #foreign #foreign policy

The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#between #chaser #clown #difference #four

Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#administration #between #dispute #international #international terrorism

They were unable to stand up and say: "Here's our policy. It's Unite the world against terrorism." ↗

— Chris Matthews

#here #our #policy #say #stand

Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#global #important #important thing #law #most

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#government #military operations #operations #opposition #supported

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#arab world #card #every #front #got

Well, the right-wing policy with regard to Israel - the people who don't want to deal with Arafat, who don't want a Palestinian state - the whole sort of right-wing view is consistent with the view toward Iraq. It's the same policy and the same people. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#consistent #deal #iraq #israel #palestinian