Quote

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

Chris Hayes

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Chris Hayes
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: February 28
Commentator
Journalist
News Presenter
Political Pundit
Television Presenter
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
Christopher Loffredo Hayes
Backgrounds
Teacher
Class
Working
Community
Father
Mother
Organizer
Come
Background

More quotes by Chris Hayes

Image
There is a sense in which, like, it could be the case that the incentives of running for president and the incentives of getting maximum attention for yourself, sometimes align, and at a certain point, they stop aligning, and you just keep going with the incentives for maximum attention for yourself.
Chris Hayes
Image
It`s basically a united [Republican ] party behind [Donald Trump] and Cruz`s numbers in Texas were plummeting and he was facing a possible primary challenge and this cements that this is the party of Trump.
Chris Hayes
Image
The backlash to [Sarah] Palin`s comments was swift, with veterans and veterans` groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Chris Hayes
Image
If he [Donald Trump]can boost Mitt Romney`s performance five points among white folks, he could have a shot.
Chris Hayes
Image
Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.
Chris Hayes
Image
It`s been a long and tumultuous relationship between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz that started off more or less as allies during the Republican primary. As Trump took the early lead in polls, Cruz stuck with the strategy of drafting off of the front-runner waiting for the moment to make his move.
Chris Hayes
Image
[Donald] Trump`s campaign, the Republican National Committee and state parties employ just 1,409 staffers in 16 states. So, nearly for the one, democratic advantage in human resources, the big question now is, how well does that turn out machinery work for democrats for Election Day?
Chris Hayes
Image
There's no real organised body, ... so through the internet people have spread their videos, spread photos, and spread word of a new urban movement.
Chris Hayes
Image
Meritocracy is our social ideal, particularly among good liberals. Equality of opportunity, but not of outcome. Not evaluating people by their [outside] features, but by their innate talent and drive.
Chris Hayes
Image
A Republican primary race that has for months alternated between spectacle and abomination has over the past 20th hours ignited into a raging, full-blown dumpster fire. One stoke by a group of men who hope to become the most powerful person in the world.
Chris Hayes
Image
The [Donald's] Trump war on the press continues. Tonight, the national cost of a conservative media bubble, now featuring alien conspiracy theories. And about those Obamacare headlines.
Chris Hayes
Image
Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz opened up a new line of attack on Donald Trump, targeting his involvement in Trump University, a for-profit, non-licensed now defunct institution which triggered lawsuits from individuals who claimed they were defrauded by him, as well as a suit alleging fraud from New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman.
Chris Hayes
Image
There`s a lot in common between the Trump phenomenon and the campaign for Britain to exit the European Union, known as Brexit.
Chris Hayes
Image
Chris Christie travelled to Ft. Worth, Texas, to give his blessing to a former rival who one week ago was approvingly discussing killing Muslim terrorists with bullets smeared in pig`s blood.
Chris Hayes
Image
If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.
Chris Hayes
Image
We`re in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.
Chris Hayes
Image
I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.
Chris Hayes
Image
As long as there have been people in California, there have been people obsessed with California`s water. Scientists say the state is at its driest point in half a millennium and as any Californians will tell you, it is not just their problem, it`s everyone`s problem.
Chris Hayes
Image
There`s a line of thinking about Ted Cruz.
Chris Hayes
Image
Sarah Palin, suggesting her son`s arrest on domestic violence charges was a result of post-traumatic stress disorder and partially due to President Obama`s lack of respect for men and women in uniform.
Chris Hayes