Top 100 Rachel Maddow Quotes
#1. Jean-Marie Le Pen is a holocaust denier who was convicted and fined for dismissing Nazi concentration camps as a, quote, "Detail in History." But he kept running this anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, populist unapologetic xenophobic far right party in French politics.
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#2. Fascistic leaders are aggressively macho and chauvinistic. They are xenophobic about people who they portray as outsiders or some sort of threat to the nation or as weaklings they can denounce.
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#3. I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
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#4. The highest percentage of respondents say that biggest problem in the country is the government. The biggest problem facing our country today is that our government is terrible. Dissatisfaction with the government, problem numero uno by a mile.
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#5. I think Donald Trump is now kind of in love with the idea of becoming president of the United States. I think he truly does believe that he can be the Republican nominee.
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#6. But somehow Carter's "battlefield of energy" never really filled up with eager American combatants. It just never felt like anybody was going to be draped in glory for taking public transportation, or carpooling, or turning down the thermostat and wearing a cardigan.
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#7. If you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.
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#8. "Red Dawn" was a movie made in 1984 I think about World War III. If you have not seen it and plan on watching it, you want to close your eye and cover your ears but not really. You can figure it out.
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#9. Bernie Sanders are the only person who talks about the kinds of things that might be driving people to support Donald Trump in such large numbers in the Republican Party.
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#10. I still think of myself as the new kid, even though I've been on the air for two and a half years. But my job is the same as it ever was, which is to make 9:00 P.M. as good as I can.
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#11. I will say that Bernie Sanders are the opposite end of the spectrum from Donald Trump. We see him leading right now in the Republican Party in an intractable way.
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#12. I don't feel passionately about politics, i'm not a political person. Is it easy for me to get fired up about someone's position on climate change? No, it's not. On most of these issues, I can see both sides.
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#14. 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.
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#15. Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about.
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#16. Forced federal registration of U.S. citizens based on religious identity is fascism, period. Nothing else to call it.
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#17. I really believe in trying to increase the amount of useful information in the world and in being accurate in the sense that you can take what I say to the bank, even if you disagree with me.
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#18. When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird!
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#19. Social security isn't a ponzi scheme. It's not bankrupting us. It's not an outrage. It is working.
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#20. Internet's been down most of the day [at work]. Doing research by just asking everyone what we remember to be true. What could possibly go wrong?
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#21. 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.
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#22. If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably.
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#23. 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.
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#24. The downside of playing dumb is that you sound dumb.
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#25. I know every film is different. Every filmmaker is different and works differently.
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#26. We never had an effect well-organized national fascist party in this country. The way they want have had in decades past and in decades present in countries like Britain and France that we think of as such close allies.
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#27. You know just because you don't like the way it sounds when I say it or you don't like my haircut or you don't like that I'm gay, it does not mean that what we say is not true. If you squint a little bit, it is true I do sometimes look like a dude, and I am definitely gay.
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#28. I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.
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#29. Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.
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#30. I am too old to know how to put a naked photograph of myself on the Internet.
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#31. And every year the Pentagon bite of the federal dollar got bigger and bigger. In Reagan's eight years in office, military expenditure doubled from around $150 billion to $300 billion a year, until it represented nearly 30 percent of our overall annual budget and more than 6 percent of GDP.
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#32. Americans are incredibly religious as a nation, and we have gotten that way by having the government stay out of religion and say religion is a private matter. The government doesn't take sides. Public schools don't promote or denigrate any religion.
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#33. Overall, the United States admits to having lost track of eleven nuclear bombs over the years. I
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#35. You may never have heard of Joseph Overton and his proverbial window but you most certainly have heard the Republican presidential campaign in 2015 year not just flinging the window open but shattering all its glass.
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#36. I'd rather have none at all than a grain too much.
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#37. Formula 1 racing had a personal scandal right up at the top of its governing body that was so weird, that was so flagrantly salacious and bizarre, that I think it not only reassured American racing fans that Formula 1, yes, really is kind of weird.
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#38. Those policies [of Jean-Marie Le Pen ]I find repellent. I believe many people right across consist the world do. There is no future in that type of narrow minded racism and nationalism.
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#39. I don't think vodka is useful. I think it's for people who don't like alcohol, in which case, you probably shouldn't be drinking it.
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#40. That was like seeing a dodo and a unicorn all wrapped up in one
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#41. I'm a sarcastic person. I learn through humor.
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#42. I recommend sports, I don't recommend gambling.
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#43. I'm not trying to change things in the world and trying to use my leverage to do so. The only thing I'm trying to change in the world is that I'm trying to increase the amount of useful information in it. And entertainment, honestly.
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#44. The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud
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#45. It is sometimes hard to know what Sarah Palin means, just on a day to day basis. Sometimes it is hard to follow what she is talking about.
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#46. I wish every Republican wanted to impeach [Jeorge W.] Bush , but people don't agree with this. He's stating a fact about what he believes.
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#47. There's no way to tweak your content in order to goose ratings. You do what you're good at and let people follow you.
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#48. 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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#49. The thing about rights is they're not actually supposed to be voted on. That's why they're called rights.
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#50. I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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#51. I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.
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#52. But there's a reason that we have different laws for juveniles than we do for adults. And it's because kids are not liable for the things they do in the way that adults are, because we think that kids are different.
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#53. I'm in favor of outing when people have demonized or scapegoated gay people for their own public gain. When they have risen to public prominence on the backs of the gay community that they are part of and they prey on, I think that's absolutely deserving of outing.
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#54. If you took a cracked pot and you cracked that cracked pot, you'd be approaching the level of cracked pottery we are talking about here.
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#55. The single best thing about honesty is that it requires no follow-up.
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#56. Fascist political gatherings tend to encourage or at least expect a little violence around the edges, particularly against counter protesters.
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#57. As secretary of state you can go out in a helmet if you want to. Even in Switzerland in front of reporters.
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#58. 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.
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#59. At a time when America should be doing everything we can to lead the fight to defeat ISIS and other radical jihadists, Donald Trump is playing right into their hands.
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#60. It is hard to know what Sarah Palin means in Republican politics anymore.
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#61. After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own.
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#62. Well, they got caught of course. The whole thing was so dunderheaded, how could they not? By November 1986, Reagan's "Secret Dealings with Iran" had supplanted the 1986 midterm election results on the front page of Time magazine.
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#63. 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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#64. Every popular zillion dollar sport has its share of personal scandals around the sport and its leadership.
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#65. 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.
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#66. Britains still commemorate the Battle of Cable Street in London. There are still pop songs in Britain that reference Sir Oswald Mosley and his black shirts.
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#67. 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.
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#68. 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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#69. If you want to make the government take a religious side, then make the case, it should be Christian republic.
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#70. The American public has been delicately insulated from the actuality of our ongoing wars. While a tiny fraction of men and women fighting our wars are deploying again and again, civilian life remains pretty much isolated in cost-free complacency.
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#71. I have learned when two Republicans are talking about legalizing drugs to shut up.
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#72. 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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#73. If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later.
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#74. Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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#75. There is no news value to the content of those [Newtown 911] tapes. The actual audio is of no news value at all, unless you want the thrill of hearing the sound of the actual individual gunshot that might have killed a 7 year-old.
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#76. Donald Trump announced his no Muslims are allowed to come to the United States plan and that led to one of the greatest tweets of all time from New York Times columnist. Quote, "OK, I concede I picked the wrong day to modestly walk back my Trumpism as fascism column."
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#77. 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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#78. 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.
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#79. Liberals say that we are secular country with a majority of Christians, absolutely.
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#80. By 2001, even the peacetime US military budget was well over half the size of all other military budgets in the world combined.
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#81. Who knows if John McCain could have won that presidential campaign [2008] in any circumstances when George W. Bush the outgoing Republican president had a 22 percent approval rating.
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#82. I care a lot about what my girlfriend thinks, and my friends, but ultimately it's me in the mirror. I just want to be proud of what I do.
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#83. " [Donald] Trump may indeed be a little fascistic."New York Times wrote.
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#84. 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.
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#85. I have this belief that Donald Trump keeps floating the idea that he will quit the party and run as an independent if the Republican Party does not treat him fairly.
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#86. John McCain famously has been incredibly loyal to Sarah Palin ever since he picked her as his running mate.
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#87. Formula 1 is a huge international phenomenon even if an otherwise car racing obsessed American public has always found Formula 1 to be a little weird.
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#88. When Ronald Reagan spoke a thing aloud, he believed it forever and for always. By the time he started running for president, in 1976, he had already developed an unwavering and steadfast faith in the correctness of whatever came out of his mouth.
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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. 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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#92. [To Timothy LaHaye:] So, Mr. LaHaye, when the Rapture happens, can I have your stuff?
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#94. It matters that there's diversity on the court. I think it makes for better lawmaking, because you have people with more diverse range of judgment and who are going to make a better decision on the law.
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#95. 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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#96. 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.
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#97. Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.
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#98. Flint and its lead contaminated water are now the focus of sustained national attention including political attention.
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#100. Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.
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