Quotes from David Brock

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

The GOP's policies are not designed to help the middle class. They are designed to help their wealthy, powerful friends and donors under the misguided idea that wealth will one day trickle down.

Trump's opinions on the Iraq War have been as erratic as his opinions on other foreign policy matters - such as his careless position to think more countries should acquire nuclear weapons.

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

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

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.

Bill Clinton's legacy on job creation should be assailed by none and admired by every presidential candidate who hopes to do the same.

When most people find themselves running afoul of the law, they might change their ways. When the Koch brothers found themselves running afoul of the law, David Koch decided to run for office so that he could change the law.

You never discount a demagogue.

The right can distort anything it wants.

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

Progressive politics in America is an organizational disaster.

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.

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

Progressives are not going to give up on facts.

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.

When it comes to Republican debates, fibs and fits come first; facts come last.

When a political advocacy network hires a former CIA analyst and starts tailing save-our-parks activists, you know there's something terribly dangerous happening to our democracy.

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.

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

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

It's important to know where candidates for president are getting their ideas. Where do these ideas come from, who funds them and who is shaping our political discussion? These are all questions that are important to a healthy democracy.

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

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.'