Rachel Maddow Quotes

• So this is the only TV show in America where I am quite confident that you, the audience, will share my excitement when I tell you that coming up in our next segment, we have the best graph ever. Best graph ever.

  Rachel Maddow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, Confident

• 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

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Responsibility, People, Think, Reason

• I’m not a screamer. I’m confrontational, but I don’t think that translates into anger.

  Rachel Maddow

  Topics in Anger

  Tags in Think

• I’m a national security liberal, which I tell people because it’s meant to sound absurd.

  Rachel Maddow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Absurd, People, Liberal

• 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

  Topics in God

  Tags in Generation, People, Think, Idea

• I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It’s like being paid to eat.

  Rachel Maddow

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Like

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Died, Friends

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Weakness, Just, Conversation

• I don’t think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.

  Rachel Maddow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Think

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

  Rachel Maddow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mental, City, Need, Place

• 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

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Generally, Generations, Responsibility, People, Community

• 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

  Topics in Luck

  Tags in Ladder

• Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don’t fall in line with people who don’t respect us and who we don’t believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst.

  Rachel Maddow

  Topics in Leadership, Respect

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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