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I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.

~Chris Matthews

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I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'

~Chris Matthews

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Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.

~Chris Matthews

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I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience.

~Chris Matthews

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My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

~Chris Matthews

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They were unable to stand up and say: 'Here's our policy. It's Unite the world against terrorism.'

~Chris Matthews

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Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.

~Chris Matthews

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And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war.

~Chris Matthews

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And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together. It's a combination of motives.

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C'mon. He'd be embarrassing upstairs at the White House. So I think she'd have a hard time. I think a woman president would have to be very conservative to get elected.

~Chris Matthews

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: December 17th, 1945

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