Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'
Chris Hayes
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Friends
Climb
Words
Climbs
Able
Allies
Selectively
Find
Lower
Scramble
Way
Pull
Meritocracy
Allow
Oligarchy
Says
Ladder
Ways
Ladders
More quotes by Chris Hayes
If he [Donald Trump]can boost Mitt Romney`s performance five points among white folks, he could have a shot.
Chris Hayes
Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz did their best Donald Trump impersonation. All three unleashing an unprecedented string of insults and attacks fit more for a barroom than a presidential debate stage.
Chris Hayes
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
Hillary Clinton tweeted Charlotte should release police video of the Keith Lamont Scott shooting without delay. The Clinton campaign has since announced that Clinton will travel to Charlotte.
Chris Hayes
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
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
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
After a battle royale debate, the fight between [Marco]Rubio and [Donald]Trump gets ugly.
Chris Hayes
[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
Like Trump`s presidential bid, the Brexit campaign has been driven largely by fears of cultural penetration, immigrant invasion, and the genuine crisis of Middle East refugees dying to get into Europe, all channeled into a kind of inward-turning form of ethno-nationalism.
Chris Hayes
No one`s dropped a cent - there`s no negative ads up against Donald Trump in Iowa which is crazy to think about.
Chris Hayes
I`m a big fan of Donald Trump`s.
Chris Hayes
What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.
Chris Hayes
While Newt Gingrich was running for president four years ago a controversy bubbled up regarding his campaign finances. You see, in December of 2011 a watchdog group filed an FEC complaint alleging the campaign paid Gingrich himself $42,000 for his mailing list. Now, the group claimed that payment was not disclosed on his FEC filing.
Chris Hayes
Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want.
Chris Hayes
The disturbing video taken by Keith Lamont Scott`s wife showing the moment her husband was killed by police in Charlotte provides a sobering window into the high level of compliance that people of color feel they need to maintain in their interactions with police.
Chris Hayes
It`s the nature of cable news that we [TV hosts] do a lot of clipping and quoting of other broadcasts and outlets, sometimes to make a narrative point, sometimes to make a political one, and sometimes just to make a joke.
Chris Hayes
Trump University is just one of the many lines of attack that were opened up last night, giving a preview of what`s to come in the general if [Donald] Trump is indeed the Republican nominee.
Chris Hayes
After campaign financial reports show more money spent than raised in the month of September. Report adds to growing speculation that Donald Trump is not in some very deep psychological sense, actually running to be President of the United States, so much as he`s running to build up a fan base for Donald Trump.
Chris Hayes
Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.
Chris Hayes
