Cenk Uygur

Imagine a progressive president fighting to fix the insane economic inequality in the country or to end the senseless drug war or, best of all, battling to get money out of politics. Wouldn't that be wonderful? ”

Never, ever get on an American Airlines flight. They will make you wait four hours, and then, when you complain about it, you will be kicked off your flight, and they will rob you of your money. ”

I think a progressive is someone who cares to expand freedom for everybody. ”

Our number one agenda is to get money out of politics, to drain the swamp, but not in the way that Trump said. He stacked his cabinet full of Goldman Sachs guys. ”

You can't win a congressional seat unless you have money. Even if you do, it's tick-tock, tick-tock until someone with more money beats you. ”

Even the most ardent Obama supporter can't, in good conscience or sound mental state, argue that President Obama has changed the way Washington works. He's just played the game a little better, if you're being charitable on how you keep score on that count. ”

I don't have to do something I'm not comfortable with just to be on television. ”

I'm the poorest famous person in the country. ”

I've criticized myself over the years. ”

There are a lot of things wrong with the country, and that doesn't mean America sucks. It means we should improve it. ”