Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by Cenk Uygur

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Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Cenk Kadir Uygur ; Turkish: [ˈdʒeɲc kaˈdiɾ ˈujɡuɾ]; born March 21, 1970) is a Turkish-American liberal political commentator, media host, attorney, and journalist. Uygur is the creator of The Young Turks, an American left-wing, sociopolitical, progressive news and commentary program. Before beginning his career as a political commentator, he worked briefly as an associate attorney in Washington, D.C. and New York City. As a young man, Uygur supported social conservative positions but as his views evolved he began to identify as a progressive. He is also a co-founder of Justice Democrats.

Turkish - Lawyer | Born: March 21, 1970

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I didn't just graduate from Stanford with a really good idea and a good dad.

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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.

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I look forward to fighting Nancy Pelosi, and I look forward to defeating Nancy Pelosi in getting the Green New Deal passed.

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I had one of the best nights of my life at Mardi Gras.

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I'm a huge optimist.

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I think President Obama is clearly, you know, a Republican. I know, because in the 1990s I was a Republican, and he's way to the right of me, and I've hardly changed any positions.

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I hire a lot of hosts, reporters, producers, and I hire people who care about the news.

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When I was at MSNBC, I had issues with the Obama administration. I got told by the person who runs MSNBC... that Washington was not happy with my tone.

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How could anyone ever build a company if they didn't have investments? It doesn't make any sense.

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Liberty is the most important thing.

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I'm an early, middle, and late supporter of Bernie Sanders.

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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?

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There is no greater threat to Washington, D.C., than Bernie Sanders, and they know it.

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The devil I know is the establishment, and I'm gonna beat that devil.

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I think 'progressive' is different than 'liberal' - I know a lot of people use them interchangeably - but I think I'm far more progressive than I am liberal.

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The reason people like the Young Turks is because we say things you're not allowed to say in Washington that are obviously true.

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The establishment thinks we're the bad guys, and we're the radicals, but what they don't realize is we're actually the last line of defense. After us, it's the pitchforks.

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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.

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Quietly, President Obama has done warrantless wire tapping. And it was hardly covered. I don't know if any of the mainstream press bothered to cover it.

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

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TV is a wasteland. It's a bunch of news actors that read off a prompter.

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I'm the poorest famous person in the country.

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I want to steer the national conversation in the right direction, from my point of view. I want to get under Robert Gibbs' skin and Rahm Emanuel's skin and Barack Obama's skin.

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Obviously, the genes of women are flawed. They are poorly designed creatures who do not want to have sex nearly as often as needed for the human race to get along peaceably and fruitfully.

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You know you're a bigot when you can't take out the word 'Muslim' from a sentence you stated and replace it with 'Jew' and still have it be socially acceptable.

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I was a liberal Republican growing up in New Jersey. That doesn't exist anymore. If you're a Republican, you have to think that tax cuts for the rich are awesome, torture is awesome, moral war is awesome.

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The right-wing wants to destroy all the media and replace it with their propaganda.

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I am not in the camp of 'Russia has to be our enemy, and they have to be that way forever,' and I think sometimes we fight about from the past.

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I know that a lot of people love to say that polls are wrong or don't matter, and from time to time they are - it depends on who they are polling.

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If you love what you do, you're going to work hard enough at it in order to succeed. If you don't love what you do, you're never going to be able to work hard enough to make it work.

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The right wing has an ecosystem that is funded by billionaires who want tax cuts.

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I was always kind of a loudmouth to the point where I annoyed my teachers and friends.

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It is fascinating. No matter where I go, people recognize me.

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I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

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Be true to your audience, or you will lose money.

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Trump is a maniac.

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I love doing talk shows.

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Do you see Fox News go after Republican officials all the time? No, you almost never see that. You see them do that to Trump administration officials almost never.

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Unfortunately, a lot of the mainstream media television is so fake, so plastic, that it's really turned off the younger generation.

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When you lose power, then all of a sudden, the press are lions. When you have power, the press are lambs.

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I made $70,000 in the 1990s, when I was a corporate lawyer. I didn't see that salary again until I was on MSNBC.

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I think President Obama is not progressive. And I know a lot of people hate to hear that; it breaks their heart. But that's the reality. It's not in his nature. His nature is pro-establishment. If he had a wrestling nickname, it would be The Establishment.

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I've defended the Clintons longer than I've been a liberal, but I don't have any nostalgia for that.

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If I get something wrong on air, I get 1,000 emails correcting me instantly, and most of our story suggestions come from viewers.

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I don't really trust politicians, and our job is to call them out. It's old-school journalism.

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I have no love for the Republicans, but the Democrats drive me absolutely crazy.

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I've criticized myself over the years.

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I find the Democratic party overall, on a macro level, to be institutionally corrupt.

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Cable news, by its very nature, by its formula, is very guest-heavy.

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Sixty-nine percent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was personally responsible for 9/11 when we invaded Iraq. That is the biggest failure of the media I have ever seen.

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If I'm working on the Internet, you know, it's different than working on television.

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I was at a White House Correspondents' Dinner, and I met Bobby Jindal, and we had a perfectly lovely twenty minute conversation.

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The Republicans love alpha-males, and they're sick of the corruption, too. Not that Trump will do anything about it. But at least he's not bought. And he throws in just the right amount of racism to appeal to the Republican base.

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If I'm off the teleprompter, management doesn't get to see what I'm going to say.

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You think that the CNN hosts can aggressively challenge government officials? I don't think so. It doesn't look that way at all. And of course, when you get to Fox News, they're a whole different animal: they're purely propaganda.

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Success is about persistence. You can only afford to be persistent in something you deeply enjoy.

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I grew up in Jersey. I've been to the Jersey Shore countless times. I've lived it.

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I think Rachel Maddow has done a brilliant job in becoming more and more independent. And I think she does a fantastic progressive show, and she did it by accruing power, by getting better and better ratings.

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Jeremy Corbin is a little too liberal for me.

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

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