Words matter. These are the best Rachel Maddow Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My life is better with every year of living it.
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.
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.
I would like to be a polyglot.
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.
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.
I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
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.
Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.
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.
I’m not a screamer. I’m confrontational, but I don’t think that translates into anger.
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.
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.
I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.
I don’t think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.
