Rachel Maddow Quotes

• Sarah Palin is now the guy who hangs out in the high school parking lot showing off his car, five years after he graduated.

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  Tags in High School

• Republicans have been pointing out that the Democrats platform contains no mentions of God. Neither does the U.S. Constitution.

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Constitution, Democrats, Republicans

• The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.

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  Topics in Economy

• People who disagree on important issues don’t agree on the facts.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Disagree, Issues, Important

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Essentially, Argument

• My life is better with every year of living it.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Better, Living

• Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

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  Tags in Absolutely, Strength

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mission, Feel

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Disagree, Fact, Sources

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Live, Safety

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Burden

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Security, Reason

• I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hopeless

• I would like to be a polyglot.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like

• 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.

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  Topics in Power

  Tags in Presidents

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

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  Topics in Service

  Tags in Honorable

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proud, Capable

• When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else’s bidding for them.

  Rachel Maddow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Specific, People, Like, Difficult

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Problem

• The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Responsibility, Really

Rachel Maddow (33)

Birth:	1st April, 1973
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Radio Personality, Commentator, Television Presenter

About

Rachel Anne Maddow is an American television host, political commentator, and author.She hosts a nightly television show, The Rachel Maddow Show, on MSNBC.Her syndicated talk radio program of the same name aired on Air America Radio. Maddow was
the first openly gay anchor of a prime-time news program in the United States. Asked about her political views by the Valley Advocate, Maddow replied, "I'm undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I'm in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican party platform."

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