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

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Feb 27, 2025

I will tell you it is also unnerving to see that on a network where we’ve got two—count them, two—non-white hosts in prime time, both of our non-white hosts in prime time are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. And that…

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Sean Hannity
@seanhannity· Feb 26, 2025

They're not going to fire every federal employee. There's -- there's too much work that the federal government needs to be done, assuming that your work and her work is -- are essential.

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Sean Hannity
@seanhannity· Feb 26, 2025

I think that's where the main focus is going to be on. And, you know, limiting the bureaucracy. How many of these jobs are redundant?

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Glenn Beck
@glennbeck· Feb 26, 2025

The #Epsteinfiles are a total joke. I know Kash, Pam B and The President. This is not the file.

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Glenn Beck
@glennbeck· Feb 26, 2025

Who is subverting POTUS? The #Epsteinfiles are a total joke.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Feb 24, 2025

I will tell you, it is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two—count them, two—nonwhite hosts in prime time, both of our nonwhite hosts in prime time are losing their shows.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 23, 2025

He's not even president yet, and he's already spending his time sitting in his golden palace, Mar-a-Lago, muscling other countries like he's Tony Soprano.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 23, 2025

Reid called Trump an 'insurrectionist' over his alleged role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 23, 2025

I am not sorry that I stood up for those things because those things are of God.

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Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro· Feb 21, 2025

Russia invaded a sovereign country and tried to take Kyiv and has killed tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Feb 19, 2025

Just because you say you're going to shake up a place, doesn't mean that you should put in someone who literally has no qualifications at all.

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Hasan Piker
@hasanpiker· Feb 17, 2025

I’ll be suited up and booted up to cover the Trump inauguration, the first day of the apocalypse.

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Hasan Piker
@hasanpiker· Feb 17, 2025

This is why I kept criticizing the Democrats during the election cycle. This is why I kept losing my mind.

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Hasan Piker
@hasanpiker· Feb 17, 2025

I was like, ‘Dude, I don’t want Trump to win, and it seems like you guys want him to win, or at least don’t care enough to do what is necessary to stop him from winning.’

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Hasan Piker
@hasanpiker· Feb 17, 2025

Do I think that there are people that have basically grown up watching me and then got into politics and started getting lower-level campaign positions? Absolutely.

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Hasan Piker
@hasanpiker· Feb 17, 2025

If a day comes where I’m side by side with the Democratic Party, that means the Democratic Party has changed its ways.

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Hasan Piker
@hasanpiker· Feb 17, 2025

I give a lot of leeway to people for having somewhat bigoted views.

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Hasan Piker
@hasanpiker· Feb 17, 2025

You have nobody to protect you but yourselves and your neighbors.

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Hasan Piker
@hasanpiker· Feb 17, 2025

Dude, I don’t want Trump to win, and it seems like you guys want him to win, or at least don’t care enough to do what is necessary to stop him from winning.

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Hasan Piker
@hasanpiker· Feb 17, 2025

If you recognize that Republicans are devastating to the country, to the globe, to the lives of Americans and the lives of your neighbors, then you have to do everything in your power to fight back.

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Hasan Piker
@hasanpiker· Feb 17, 2025

America sucks. And as a nation that sucks, we’re going to have a president that sucks.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Feb 16, 2025

If a district court judge tries to usurp the authority of the chief executive of this country, he should absolutely defy it.

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Joe Rogan
@joerogan· Feb 13, 2025

I'm not going to be antagonistic. I'm not gonna be a sh**head.

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Joe Rogan
@joerogan· Feb 13, 2025

I would have helped her explain her policy platform, even if it doesn't make any sense.

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