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. – Rachel Maddow
I’m a national security liberal, which I tell people because it’s meant to sound absurd. – Rachel Maddow
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
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
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. – Rachel Maddow
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. – Rachel Maddow
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
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. – Rachel Maddow
I’m not a screamer. I’m confrontational, but I don’t think that translates into anger. – Rachel Maddow
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
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. – Rachel Maddow
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
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. – Rachel Maddow
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. – Rachel Maddow
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
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
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
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. – Rachel Maddow
