Latest Chris Matthews Quotes from Interviews

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• The FBI had a right to review that. And they did and they found Hillary Clinton not in any criminal violation.

  Chris Matthews

  Criminals, Clinton, Found

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• We are trying to pick the next president, not review the birth of the current president.

  Chris Matthews

  Trying, President, Next

  "Things just got very, very heated between Rudy Giuliani and Chris Matthews". "Hardball", www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2016.

• I'm trying to put the ridiculousness to bed. The president of the United States is the president of the United States.

  Chris Matthews

  Trying, President, Bed

  "Things just got very, very heated between Rudy Giuliani and Chris Matthews". "Hardball", www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2016.

• There is absolutely no record ever of Hillary Clinton or anyone in her campaign ever saying that President [Barack] Obama is not legitimate.

  Chris Matthews

  President, Campaigns, Records

  "Things just got very, very heated between Rudy Giuliani and Chris Matthews". www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2016.

• Anybody can say anything they want. Hillary Clinton can control her own campaign.

  Chris Matthews

  Say Anything, Campaigns, Want

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• A couple of Donald Trump people, including his vice presidential running mate, Mike Pence, the governor of Indiana, and of course, Dr. Ben Carson, have both come out in the last days, hours, practically, and said they believe President [Barack] Obama is a legitimately elected president of the United States.

  Chris Matthews

  Running, Couple, Believe

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• This is a fundamental question, Mr. Mayor [ Rudy Giuliani ]. Is the president of the United States legitimate or not? Do you believe it? If you believe it, why doesn't your candidate state it.

  Chris Matthews

  Believe, President, United States

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• The Kennedys formed a Kennedy party.

  Chris Matthews

  Party

  "Searching for the human JFK". Interview with Thomas Fitzgerald, www.philly.com. November 1, 2011.

• I don't sense an [Barack] Obama party. I think politics is transactional for him.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Thinking, Barack

• The real difference between relationship politics and transactional politics is loyalty. [Barack] Obama doesn't seem to expect it.

  Chris Matthews

  Loyalty, Real, Differences

• I see some parallels [with Barack Obama] but I don't see the leadership that this guy [John F.Kennedy] had of other men and women. It's more than being the smartest guy in room.

  Chris Matthews

  Men, Guy, Rooms

• I wanted to know how Jackie felt about [John F. Kennedy], and I got to know Rachel "Bunny" Mellon. Bunny and her were buddies. I asked, "How do you know what Jackie knew?" And Bunny said, "She told me."... Jackie called him "Magic." Bunny said she just picked her man. That was it. This was the guy she loved.

  Chris Matthews

  Men, Guy, Magic

• [ John F.Kennedy's friend] Chuck Spalding at the wedding said Jack was two guys: the groom and somebody else observing from a distance. ... It must have been maddening to be married to a guy like that, but you could at the same time argue that characteristic kept the world from being blown up.

  Chris Matthews

  Distance, Two, Guy

• [John F. Kennedy] was Arthur, the guy in the middle of the room with all the swords pointed at him. ... He wanted control of the situation.

  Chris Matthews

  Guy, Rooms, Arthur

• [John F.Kennedy] liked fresh company, new people to come visit and then leave. ... I think he liked the protection of numbers too.

  Chris Matthews

  Thinking, Numbers, People

• The fact is he [John F.Kennedy] always had to have somebody around besides Jackie [Kennedy]. Whatever their relationship, he wanted company. I think it gets back to all those years in a hospital bed.

  Chris Matthews

  Thinking, Years, Facts

• [John F. Kennedy] kept a diary and in the White House dictated his thoughts. He felt real guilt at the killing of [Ngo Dinh] Diem, the leader of South Vietnam.

  Chris Matthews

  Real, White, House

• Jean [Kennedy Smith, JFK's sister] told me she thinks the whole sports angle has been overplayed, that politics was central to him. This nonsense that he only went into politics because his older brother Joe was killed is not true. He was determined he was going to be in politics, but he would have waited his turn.

  Chris Matthews

  Sports, Brother, Thinking

  "Searching for the human JFK". Interview with Thomas Fitzgerald, www.philly.com. November 1, 2011.

• It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize before that he was working on his memoirs all along, how he ran for Congress, that sort of thing.

  Chris Matthews

  Realizing, Politician, Congress

• I always thought of him [Jack Kennedy] as a prince, with a charmed life. He was a guy who was sick and in horrendous pain all the time - who would say, "I wish I had a few good days."

  Chris Matthews

  Pain, Good Day, Sick

• How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, Kennedy had heroes. Because he had heroes, he went into politics. [Kennedy liked Sir Walter Scott, King Arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.] If he hadn't been sick, he might have been like everybody else in the family, a jock.

  Chris Matthews

  Kings, Hero, Kids

  "Searching for the human JFK". Interview with Thomas Fitzgerald, www.philly.com. November 1, 2011.

• The fact that younger people are more inclined to socialism may well come with the fact that so many young people's first experience with capitalism is as a debtor.

  Chris Matthews

  People, Debtors, May

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• While I have questions about the language used in describing the two economic systems, I think people have fairly good gut sense of the difference between socialism and capitalism.

  Chris Matthews

  Thinking, Two, Differences

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• I never wrote off [Donald] Trump.

  Chris Matthews

  Trump

• I`m surprised people are that hopeful about what government can do, because if you believe in socialism, society can run a pretty decent government, it can provide services, it can regulate the economy effectively.

  Chris Matthews

  Running, Believe, Government

  Source: www.msnbc.com