Quote

You can't be loved for long if you're not feared.

Chris Matthews

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Chris Matthews
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: December 17
Commentator
Journalist
Television Presenter
Writer
Somerton
Philadelphia
Christopher John Matthews
Feared
Loved
Long

More quotes by Chris Matthews

Image
The Indians are still winning the battle against the white men, but sooner or later, the white guy will win.
Chris Matthews
Image
There ought to be an onus on the people that want a law, rather than people that don`t need a new law.
Chris Matthews
Image
President [Barack] Obama's staking his reelection hopes on rebuilding America's middle class. He wants higher taxes on the wealthy, tougher rules on Wall Street, and everyone else to get a fair shot to succeed. Republicans can cry class warfare if they want, but as the president put it today, it's about this country's welfare.
Chris Matthews
Image
The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.
Chris Matthews
Image
All Hollywood endings - the bad endings have to be the bad guys to be falling about 50 stories to his death and you have to see his eyeballs as he goes to his doom.
Chris Matthews
Image
I thought, giving Jeb Bush the benefit of the doubt all these years, that he was sitting, saying, what a numbnut, what an idiot. My brother's a fool. He's listening to these neocons that talked him into this war. Dad would have never done this.
Chris Matthews
Image
America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.
Chris Matthews
Image
The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.
Chris Matthews
Image
I do still think there is a big disconnect between Republicans in Washington, D.C., and Republicans everywhere I go. When you start talking about, you know, foreign entanglements, they just don`t want any part of it.
Chris Matthews
Image
All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution.
Chris Matthews
Image
It's no good to shoot a guy anymore. It's not enough. Nobody is throwing anybody off of buildings after seeing these movies, but they are smoking after seeing some good-looking celebrity smoke.
Chris Matthews
Image
It looks to me like the Republican Party`s in no mood to give them [voters] a reasonable choice with this clown show going on right now from the likes of, well, Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump. What a duo.
Chris Matthews
Image
Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.
Chris Matthews
Image
Pope John Paul II spoke with a lot of clarity and consistency. But he always spoke with immense compassion. He's the one who said the best way to love somebody is to tell them the truth. So, he did that well.
Chris Matthews
Image
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
Image
If you think what you see on TV is prejudiced, it is. Follow your instincts.
Chris Matthews
Image
Whether the Bushes, or whoever they are, they always end up in the end with the money and the ability to really blow away anybody who dares challenge them.
Chris Matthews
Image
I forgot he [Barack Obama] was black tonight for an hour.
Chris Matthews
Image
We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.
Chris Matthews
Image
The overall campaign launch is designed to break through the clutter and reach out to consumers. At the end of the day, consumers are the ones who benefit from the convenience and value never before seen in a free checking account.
Chris Matthews