Rachel Maddow Quotes

It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.
Rachel Maddow

Long, Different, Fighting

My life is better with every year of living it.
Rachel Maddow

Life, Living, Year

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.
Rachel Maddow

Anger, Translates

It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.
Rachel Maddow

Off, Stuff, Feels

If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.
Rachel Maddow

Great, Done, Talk

I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
Rachel Maddow

Talk, Loved, Eat

I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.
Rachel Maddow

God, Honest, Idea

I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.
Rachel Maddow

Service, Honorable, Inculcated

I would like to be a polyglot.
Rachel Maddow

The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
Rachel Maddow

Problem, Big, Whole

A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.
Rachel Maddow

After, Put, Another

As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.
Rachel Maddow

Thought, Proud, Idea

Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.
Rachel Maddow

Future, Gay, Community

Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
Rachel Maddow

Place, City, Toward

I don't think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.
Rachel Maddow

Stress, Tv, Watching

I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.
Rachel Maddow

Sleep, Won, Eat

I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.
Rachel Maddow

Friends, Died, Aids

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.
Rachel Maddow

Power, Give, Once

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
Rachel Maddow

Tell, Security, Liberal

I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
Rachel Maddow

Hopeless, Phone, Text

I'm sure other people in the business have considered reasons why they're doing what they're doing, but I do think that if you're gay you have a responsibility to come out.
Rachel Maddow

Business, Gay, Why

If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
Rachel Maddow

America, Military, Financial

In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.
Rachel Maddow

Live, Fire, Around

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.
Rachel Maddow

Strength, Military, Absolutely

Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.
Rachel Maddow

Different, Stand, Congress

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: April 1, 1973

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