If Washington continues to fumble issues like taking care of the debt, getting the troops home, and rebuilding our economy, my wife and I may sit down and say, 'These are critical things and maybe we need to get back in the ball.
Joe ScarboroughDo not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family.
Joe ScarboroughI got to do something I never do, which is go to Starbucks and read 'The New York Times' until 7 a.m. I took my daughter to school on the East Side, which was a lot of fun. And I admit I played Call of Duty, one of those war video games.
Joe ScarboroughLook what's happened to Barack Obama over the last two years or George Bush for eight. It's a blood sport. But at some point, I may feel the need to run for office again.
Joe ScarboroughGood rule to follow: never reward someone's incivility by giving them the headline they seek.
Joe ScarboroughI was always fascinated by politics, and I did not like the direction the country was going under Bill Clinton.
Joe ScarboroughIn Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.
Joe ScarboroughThis is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire
Joe ScarboroughRonald Reagan knew who he was. Barack Obama is still working through that equation politically.
Joe ScarboroughNate Silver says this is a 73.6 percent chance that the president is going to win. Nobody in that campaign thinks they have a 73 โ they think they have a 50.1 percent chance of winning. And you talk to the Romney people, itโs the same thing.
Joe ScarboroughThe Supreme Court of the United States of America will never under any circumstances allow anyone to be stripped of their citizenship because they burned the American flag. And if you don't believe that, you haven't been reading constitutional law for the past seventy years.
Joe ScarboroughI have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.
Joe ScarboroughIf you don't have a hologram, how can you understand what's going on in the news? Right? Am I right?
Joe ScarboroughI support the ability of people to be able to burn the American flag if they want to. But people have the right in this country to debate it.
Joe ScarboroughAs a Republican, I have listened to Democrats talk about the only two times we won the White House in like 200 years that we stole both elections. I had to sit through Fahrenheit 9/11 and a lady was sobbing violently behind me about the election being stolen by George Bush and I patted her half way through and said, 'it's alright, it's alright. It's all a lie anyway.' Democrats have been whining for 16 years, they're still writing articles about how Bush stole the election in 2004 and 2000.
Joe ScarboroughFor eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition.
Joe ScarboroughThe fact is, there are a couple of years he may not have paid any taxes. Maybe he's concerned about that. But if it's going to come out, he needs to get it out now so he has a couple of months to explain it.
Joe ScarboroughYou have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives for critics.
Joe ScarboroughWhen Im in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town.
Joe ScarboroughI don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I'm sure I was sporting polyester pants.
Joe ScarboroughI'm serious about this. The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country. That's a hell of a trifecta.
Joe ScarboroughWhen Hillary Clinton deserved to be praised, I praised her. When Donald Trump did, as well, I did that, too.
Joe ScarboroughI called Donald Trump a racist. Nobody that makes that charge is being intellectually honest, or else they're being intellectually lazy.
Joe Scarborough[S]ince their candidate lost, many [Democrats] have allowed their hatred of George W. Bush to put them in the tragic position to be cheering for the same result in Iraq as Osama Bin Laden and al Zarqawi.
Joe ScarboroughMy wife always tells people, 'He's not going to be able run to for anything because I'm not going to let him start a campaign.
Joe ScarboroughI love the Upper West Side. I walk down the street all the time and am stopped by Democrats. I don't think they've ever actually met a Republican before.
Joe ScarboroughI see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.
Joe ScarboroughI'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.
Joe ScarboroughWhat's so ironic is that CNN's doing reports on fake news, and they have someone who writes one false news story after the next.
Joe ScarboroughJust because everybody else is engaged in a group hug with Barack Obama doesn't mean that somebody doesn't have to tell the truth.
Joe ScarboroughI'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible.
Joe ScarboroughWith my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.
Joe ScarboroughToday they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.
Joe ScarboroughThere are 435 members of Congress. There's one 'Morning Joe' show. Hopefully, we can keep hammering the argument that you can disagree with other people and have debates but remain civil.
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