Rachel Maddow
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Biography
Rachel Anne Maddow is an American television news program host and liberal political commentator. She hosts The Rachel Maddow Show, a weekly television show on MS NOW, and serves as the cable network's special event co-anchor.
"The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them."
"When Pat is saying something outrageous, you know when you yell at the TV? I get to yell at him in person. I get to yell at the TV and it hears me."
"When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird!"
"I'm so rarely the arbiter of what all women want. I'm usually quite the outlier on that chart."
"I really believe that in America, if you are clinging to some indefensible, unconstitutional bad idea of a policy, ultimately — one day — you are going to look up from the front gate of your prison and there on the horizon will be the ACLU."
"Spending freeze is what made the Depression 'Great.'"
"Who's Burson-Marsteller? When evil needs public relations, evil has Burson-Marsteller on speed-dial."
"So best of luck to the Sea Shadow and its disguise-me ship, which I have to say are the most adorable multimillion dollar bits of scrap heap-bound Cold War ephemera that we have seen in a long time."
"When Blackwater killed those 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, they called Burson-Marsteller. When there was a nuclear meltdown at Three-Mile Island, Babcock and Wilcox, who built that plant, called Burson-Marsteller. The Bhopal chemical disaster that killed thousands of people in India, Union Carbide called Burson-Marsteller. Romanian dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu — Burson-Marsteller. The government of Saudi Arabia, three days after 9/11 — Burson-Marsteller."
"Spending Freeze? (referring to remarks by John Boehner), the brand named policy of economic fundamental misunderstanding endorsed by more conservatives than any other proven policy failure on the market today"
"...teeny, teeny, teeny, tiny, tiny little..."
"RACHEL MADDOW: That‘s why we don‘t have to worry about the antichrist until after the rapture?"
"I had long blonde hair, but even as a little girl with long blonde hair, I looked like one of the Hanson boys."
"I spent the weekend curled up with the Marine Corps and Army counterinsurgency field manual—because that‘s how I roll on the weekends."
"War is destructive. The idea that you can do something constructive with war is becoming this facile, dangerous, intellectually lax political interpretation of military counter-insurgency theory. I want to hear [President Barack Obama] say that doesn't work. That war is never constructive."
"The bomb exploded the junk in Vladimir's trunk. Y'know, they always said that Communists would get it in the end."
"I felt tense. He did not."
"Expressing an opinion about the news does not negate one‘s status as a news reporter or as a correspondent or as a news anchor. The expression of opinion about the news is not the difference between FOX and the rest of the news media. The difference between FOX and news is that FOX is now actively organizing and promoting a protest movement against the U.S. government."
"The Biden administration today announced that as of today, we have crossed an important threshold. As of today, a majority of U.S. seniors have been vaccinated. We have hit 50 percent of all Americans aged 65 and up have been vaccinated. Just a remarkable threshold."
"The Rachel Maddow Show [on MSNBC has tested positive for COVID ] Don't worry, we're already working on rescheduling"
"I say this tonight, not for the gee whiz factor of me having Liz Cheney here tonight, me having somebody here tonight who you would never expect. I say this not for just the man-bites-dog weirdness of this. I say it because I think, in civic terms, in sort of American citizenship terms, I think it's really important how much we disagree. It's important how far apart we are in every policy issue imaginable. It is important that Liz Cheney is infinity and I am negative infinity on the ideological number line. It's important because that tells you how serious and big something has to be to put us, to put me and Liz Cheney, together on the same side of something in American life."
"'History is calling!' Last chance to play a role in hugely consequential election"
"If you were counting on the polls telling you something about the midterm elections that are just two weeks away, the answer is that they're telling you that the candidate you want to win needs your help."
"I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger."
"Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength."