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Quotes from political pundits — hosts, columnists, analysts, and commentators across the spectrum.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Nov 23, 2021

It has been more than a year since I was last able to interview her.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Nov 23, 2021

If you had done nothing else in your lives except this, you guys always will be known as the attorneys that sued the Nazis and freakin won.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Nov 23, 2021

What this case has been is a civil case brought by plaintiffs against the neo-Nazis and white supremacists defendants. The plaintiffs are nine people injured or otherwise targeted at that event, and they wanted the defendants held liable…

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Nov 19, 2021

Gun laws helped to enhance the design to allow this verdict to happen today. This country was built on the idea of white men had a particular kind of freedom and a particular kind of citizenship that only they have.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Nov 19, 2021

Get out of politics, and if you can`t deliver that for people, get out of politics, that`s it.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Nov 19, 2021

I don’t know anybody who didn’t expect this acquittal today.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Nov 18, 2021

But there's a reason that people are upset, and there is a bigger context here. This idea of white vigilante violence is something that we have to wrestle with.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Nov 18, 2021

Kevin McCarthy is using that unlimited time as no one on the losing side of a vote in the House ever has before.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Nov 18, 2021

It seems all the targeted nonviolent action directed at that issue is not moving, specifically one person, is not moving Democratic Senator Joe Manchin to do what he needs to do to get legislation passed in the Senate.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Nov 17, 2021

Governor Stitt, if you are watching this or you get a clip of this, you can easily show mercy to this young man. Let him fight for his freedom. My God, we are -- we have to be better than this at some point in our history.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Nov 17, 2021

President Joe Biden announced measures focused on relieving those backlogs last month.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Nov 16, 2021

Voting for infrastructure is bad and unacceptable, because that goes against the party line.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Nov 16, 2021

It’s all damning evidence of just how backwards and weird and extreme this Republican Party has become.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Nov 15, 2021

Texas has become home to some of the most radical right-wing legislation in the country.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Nov 15, 2021

It is finally infrastructure week in America. The President signs his bipartisan infrastructure deal into law.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Nov 11, 2021

Today, obviously is Veterans Day. Veterans Day is a day when we celebrate America’s veterans.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Nov 11, 2021

The Biden administration announced new research, new resources, new support for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who were exposed to toxic burn pits during their service.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Nov 10, 2021

They`re mainstreaming white nationalism, violence instead of politics.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Nov 10, 2021

All of the pressure in the Republican Party is on their candidates, never concede, never accept the results when they lose an election. And that will lead to trouble in 2022 and 2024.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Nov 9, 2021

That is wild. That is the kind of punishment reserved for Members of Congress who engage in particularly egregious conduct.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Nov 9, 2021

Remember, there`s a reason the January 6 Committee wants to talk to him.

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Bill Maher
@billmaher· Nov 7, 2021

But this is what’s so weird about it. The actual news is pretty good. The economy’s going through the roof. We added 531,000 jobs in October. That’s a big number for one month.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Nov 3, 2021

Donald Trump has even more incentive now to put his stamp on the party’s primaries.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Nov 3, 2021

One reason a fairly generic candidate like Glenn Youngkin was able to win an increasingly radicalized Republican Party is that his state party fixed it so you don’t have to beat a diehard MAGA candidate in the primary.

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