Chris Matthews

Chris Matthews predicts: "Most people will vote for the Democratic ticket in Virginia simply to avoid voting in the fringe." Read More

"In the case of 9/11, the political critics pull with the president. They put politics aside," says Chris Matthews. "In the case of the outpost in Libya, they make it grounds for the biggest scandal in god's creation, the basis for all-out political war!" Read More

Chris Matthews on Obama's tumultuous week: 'He shouldn't have to read in the paper that some agency is screwing up... shouldn't have to learn second-hand about what his Justice Department is up to.' Read More

Republians don't "so much want the White House - try to think of someone they honestly want to see there - as it wants to imagine that Barack Obama isn't really President after all," says Chris Matthews. Read More

And now? "What he needs to do is accept his duty to do it, and show it, across the board," says Hardball host Chris Matthews. Read More

"The president's problems - the Benghazi "talking points," the IRS digging into the Tea Party, the FBI digging for reporters' phone records - are containable if the President takes two clear steps," says Chris Matthews. Read More

"I think she can deal with Benghazi because at its bottom line, she didn't do a thing wrong," says Chris Matthews of the former secretary of state. Read More

"Mr. President, I've got some advice. This thing is going to demoralize the good people, give firepower to the far-out. So don't just talk about how 'outrageous' it is. Do something. Act!," says Matthews. Read More

A central theme in the story that's unique to America is self-creation, explains Hardball host Chris Matthews. Read More

"They're hoping if they can making charges, keep digging, keep promising more, that one fine day they will find something in the desert sands of Libya to justify their existence," says Chris Matthews. Read More

Hardball host Chris Matthews on the New Jersey governor's lap band surgery: "So maybe the governor of New Jersey is getting in shape to run - or maybe just to improve his health. In any case, it will be good to have him as a prospect for 2016." Read More

"We shouldn't pass laws we don't intend to fully enforce," says Hardball's Chris Matthews. Read More

If the U.S. becomes belligerent in Syria, "we will be seen as the neo-colonial force invading Arabia for oil, for Israel, for Western influence," says Hardball host Chris Matthews. Read More

"I believe deeply in a person having the guts to try the hardest road - because it's those kind of people I want running the country," says Chris Matthews. Read More

This is a real problem. In the old days we released prisoners of war when the war was over. They went home. So when's this war going to be over? This "war on terrorism"? Read More

Before we go for war, remember the feeling last time we thought we "absolutely" had to get into the war, and how it turned out very, very differently. Read More

Let me finish tonight with this.

Massachusetts has a chance next week to fill the seat of Senator Edward Kennedy. It's quite an opportunity. After all, he… Read More

It was a pleasant day in Dallas as Republicans and Democrats set aside their differences for the dedication of the Bush Presidential Library. Read More

Chris Matthews: "To admit that Dick Cheney was - Yes!!! - the joker in the deck would bring down his whole house of cards." Read More

"Here was a woman, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, who took a chance entering a race for the Congress where Democrats like her don't stand a chance - not a chance in the world," says Chris Matthews. Now, "...The race that no Democrat could win is now a race where the Democrat could be hard to catch." Read More