Top 85 Quotes & Sayings by David Brock

We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that's what we're going to do.

I think the Republicans are trying to learn from their mistakes about attacks on women because the women's vote will backfire.

Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.

There was a slow-motion swift boating of Hillary Clinton in '15.

When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.

Progressives want a different sort of media than what the Right wants.

At the end of the day, I think Donald Trump will be the great unifier of the Democratic Party.

You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.

Nobody ever said that Hillary's nomination would be unopposed or would be something that was foreordained.

The pro-Hillary groups needed to quit fighting each other and get down to business fighting Republicans.

I want to have a media platform that is an honest broker and not just a mouthpiece for a political party.

Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.

I made the apologies that needed to be made, and so I didn't feel that Media Matters was a continuing form of saying I was sorry.

I didn't say a bad thing about 'Politico' in my book.

Trump apologized for nothing, including the horrible tape, right? No apology.

The right can distort anything it wants.

I'm comfortable on the progressive side. But I'm still more pitched at fighting the Right than I am about building a progressive platform for the future. It's fair to say that that conversation doesn't interest me as much.

It's not a vast right-wing conspiracy. It's a right-wing conglomerate. It's more sophisticated, it's well-financed, it's well known.

The Trump administration is shaping up to be one of the most corrupt since the Gilded Age.

I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.'

I think the Democratic Party has to learn how to be a party of opposition.

Our nation marches closer to Trumpism each day, a path paved with reckless Tweets and the normalization of the ugly and the absurd.

I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

It's very important to understand that the 'Talk' piece was not an excerpt, it was an adaptation, which means I compressed different parts of the book and made a new piece.

I have conservative relatives. I maintain some relationships with some conservatives going back to the 1990s... Not in any meaningful way.

I'm an incredibly hard worker, I'm incredibly tenacious, and I'm incredibly detail-oriented.

We all know liberals and Democrats who look down on certain people, and there is such a thing as P.C.

During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.

There's every financial incentive in the world to stay in the conservative movement forever.

I was one of the most visible and vocal advocates of Secretary Hillary Clinton.

I'm a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.

Certainly going back to 2008 during the primary, Secretary Clinton was subjected to various forms of sexism - overt, subtle - that were detrimental. Fortunately, Senator Obama was not subjected to something similar; the culture seemed to tolerate sexism and not racism. We ought not tolerate either.

Money is money.

Fox prefers to focus on people who are doing bad - especially if they're Democrats, or environmentalists.

I don't think the candidate would be directly responsible for things that their supporters say, but when it gets to a certain level, they ought to say, 'Cut it out.'

Progressive politics in America is an organizational disaster.

I want an audience that's passionate, that can be engaged.

Progressives are not going to give up on facts.

Hillary Clinton's loss has exposed the lack of Democratic power in this country at all levels.

If I was a political mercenary, I would be using my talents in another line of work.

Aside from Donald Trump, the Clintons are the best for ratings and click-throughs.

Trump's rise to power, fueled by hatred and portending crisis, threatens to eviscerate our constitutional system of government.

If you want to keep the relationships you have, it's best not to talk about them.

Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank.

I became a conservative for the first dozen years of my professional life in Berkeley, Calif., and it was a reaction against political correctness, so I get it.

It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

Donald Trump intimidated the press and bullied the press.

Republicans tend to be more steadfast in their allegiance, and Democrats read one headline in the 'New York Times,' and the sky is suddenly falling.

The people who know Ted Cruz best despise him, including his former college roommate.

I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches.

You never discount a demagogue.

When I founded Media Matters, there was another model, which would have been to call this the Brock Report. But I was much less interested in my own profile by that point, because I had already done that once, and it was not terribly fulfilling at the end of the day.

Once you apologize, then the press wants you to get down on your knees and say you're sorry. They are not appeasable.

All of these attacks on Secretary Clinton, at the end of the day, are character attacks.

What led to my change of views about the Clintons was working through the research and writing on the book on Hillary.

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.

There's certainly an attitude in some measure of the conservative movement that I believe won't accept the legitimacy of any Democratic president, and I think Obama did fall victim to that - witness the 'birthers.'

I was a bad journalist.

The press are animals, and they need to be treated that way.