Quotes by Chris Hayes

“We want to go into every game being competitive. We dont want to go into games thinking about last years record. We might lose a couple games, but I dont want people to say Here we go again. Same thing. We need support from the crowd.”

“We didnt really talk or anything or say were going to come out with more fire. We just know we have to pick it up.”

“We try to get it to the inside as much as we can because that really gets our offense going.”

“Our defense needs to really improve more. If we had a little more fire wed challenge a little more of their shots.”

“Were losing that drive that we had in the beginning. We were more hungry.”

“We could have gone out and contested more. If we put a hand up on half of those shots, theyll miss half of them.”

“I think of it as a step forward. Because we were down a little bit, we brought it back to within three, and we had a chance to tie it. But I know we can do a lot better than that.”

“If theyre really hot, we have to keep going to them. Its good to have them step up because other guys might have off nights.”

People like bipartisanship not because they like the substance of what bipartisanship produces, but because it reduces the cognitive stress that partisan disagreement creates. If two sides are bitterly arguing over some major piece of public policy, this forces us to choose sides, and for those with weak mastery of the issue or tenuous connections to a specific worldview, it is easy to be stalked by the worry that you’re choosing the wrong side: After all, there are a ton of people screaming in righteous indignation that the side you’re on is about to destroy the country.

The thing theyre trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. Thats the substance.

Lets run the experiment.

Order is a slippery thing: its in the eyes of the beholder and the judgments of the powerful. Safety is clearer: its freedom from violence and intrusion.

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.