Ari Melber Quotes

Ari Melber

Profession : Journalist

Birth : March 31, 1980

Like any extraordinary power, surveillance provides temptations for abuse, such as tracking political opponents and journalists.

Ari Melber

The Bush administration opened several lines of attack against the rule of law and the integrity of an independent Justice Department. The scandals are so famous that they've been reduced to shorthand: Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, NSA, Attorneygate.

Ari Melber

I think the challenge for anyone in a visible industry, whether it's media, government, or political organizing, is to take serious criticism seriously and not to live in the shadows of the noise and the concern trolls.

Ari Melber

I remember buying The Fugees' 'The Score' my freshman year and feeling like this whole new world and this whole new conversation was opening up to me.

Ari Melber

Only in Washington can the pursuit of a conservative agenda, with centrist policies, be depicted as liberal reform.

Ari Melber

Obama can show that America's promise of equality not only means that anyone can reach the highest office in the land - it also means that everyone is equally subject to the law.

Ari Melber

If you believe in democracy, you accept, by definition, the existence and triumph of opposing ideas. The people who believe deeply in the Internet's force as a commons operate on that kind of premise.

Ari Melber

The Tea Party movement's economic agenda is a matter of emphasis, not exclusion. This is not a single-issue group.

Ari Melber

Honestly, anchoring the news on a nightly basis is the hardest job I've ever taken on.

Ari Melber

I started freelancing, writing op-eds and book reviews, one at a time. I then got the opportunity to write recurring freelance pieces for 'The Nation' magazine, focusing on how the Internet was changing politics.

Ari Melber

Politics has certainly changed a lot in an era of micro-targeting, Super PACs, and Twitter.

Ari Melber

If you would have said, in law school, would it be more likely that I would be working on a book or on a TV show, I would have said book.

Ari Melber

Younger viewers have a very strong detector for what's real and legit and what's phony or pandering.

Ari Melber

There's a lot of hip-hop that's oriented toward a progressive view of America because it's oriented toward a civil rights progress and a critique of the power structure.

Ari Melber

Even George W. Bush, who as president pushed the boundaries of executive power, never proposed a statutory scheme to hold people indefinitely.

Ari Melber

The 'FISA Amendments Act' would gut the oversight system established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which subjected domestic spying to review by a special intelligence court.

Ari Melber

My hope is to be a trusted utensil for viewers. Like, literally, 'That thing works. I can rely on that thing.'

Ari Melber

Only a few bloggers have the audience and credibility to effectively break stories, pressure the traditional media, incubate new ideas, or raise real money. These influential bloggers are usually sharp, opinionated, and focused on the world 'offline.' They refuse to view events through the solipsistic blinders of their own websites.

Ari Melber

When a government forcibly holds enough people indefinitely without trial, it evokes the kinds of raids, detention, and abuses of power associated with authoritarian states - or darker periods in American history.

Ari Melber

I don't look at ratings when they come out in the afternoon before the show because I'm focused on that day's show, but I do see the overall numbers.

Ari Melber