Ari Melber Quotes

Ari Melber

Profession : Journalist

Birth : March 31, 1980

Democracy functions better when donors push politicians to win campaigns based on their defining issues instead of using financial pressure for policy changes, favors, or special access.

Ari Melber

Tea Party sympathizers are more conservative on abortion policy than typical Republicans.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid likes to reminisce about being an amateur boxer. But his Senate tenure has often looked like an endless rope-a-dope.

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TV can keep you honest because the viewers really do listen. People who have succeeded in this have shown the audience how hard they work and that their reporting is really worthwhile.

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My job is to be accurate and clear.

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I think hip-hop has always been political because this is a community that doesn't have any other choice.

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Rick Ross has good beats, if some more questionable content.

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Law and politics are often overly complicated because there are people that don't want the rest of us to know what's going on.

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The president's powers are always open to being questioned by the co-equal branches of government.

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Large majorities of voters support taxing millionaires and protecting social security.

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From the Fourth Amendment to post-Watergate reforms to the national outcry when Bush's warrantless surveillance was revealed in 2005, the United States has a strong tradition of overseeing the government's power to spy on its citizens.

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It's hard to be a national punch line unless lots of voters have soured on you.

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In American politics, there's a recurring fantasy, nurtured by the press, about 'courageous' politicians who do the right thing against their political interest. But really, isn't it even more encouraging when the right thing has just become good politics?

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While 'Django Unchained' presents a morally stark universe, where people do and say evil things with no remorse, it also luxuriates in the license that such evil provides.

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Companies like YouTube will continue to be tested on their commitment to the mission that made them such popular and profitable websites - providing an open platform to a wide range of ideas from around the world.

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Obstruction takes time.

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Like any good lawyer, I'm going to maintain a confidentiality of advice offered in confidence.

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President Obama does not usually accuse Republicans of being too hawkish.

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News may not be very profitable anymore, but it sure is popular.

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Navigating a battle between partisan, progressive organizing and decentralized petition drives is, at bottom, like trying to choose between the Democratic Party and democracy. The ideas are on different planes.

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