Rachel Maddow Quotes

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• Here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights.

  Rachel Maddow

  Rights, Supposed To Be

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• If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably.

  Rachel Maddow

  Inspiring, People, Moments

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird!

  Rachel Maddow

  Thinking, Government, Trying

  The Colbert Report, November 06, 2008.

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• The single best thing about honesty is that it requires no follow-up.

  Rachel Maddow

  Honesty, Follow Up, Best Things

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• Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.

  Rachel Maddow

  Imagination, Has Beens

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.today.com. March 24, 2011.

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• I'm undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I'm in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican party platform.

  Rachel Maddow

  Party, Mean, Agreement

  "Wonk and Circumstance". Interview with Tom Sturm, valleyadvocate.com. May 6, 2010.

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• Fascism is not just a word. It`s not just a way to insult someone with whom you disagree. It is a specific thing. It is a specific form of far right politics that involves a sort of narcissistic cult of superman action around the leader of the party.

  Rachel Maddow

  Party, Leader, Narcissistic

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• Gay people exist. There's nothing we can do in public policy that makes more of us exist, or less of us exist. And you guys have been arguing for a generation that public policy ought to essentially demean gay people as a way of expressing disapproval of the fact that we exist, but you don't make any less of us exist. You just are arguing in favor of more discrimination, and more discrimination doesn't make straight people's lives any better.

  Rachel Maddow

  Gay, People, Guy

  "Rachel Maddow Confronts Jim DeMint, Ralph Reed Over Gay Marriage On ‘Meet The Press’ ", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 30, 2013.

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• I am too old to know how to put a naked photograph of myself on the Internet.

  Rachel Maddow

  Naked, Internet, Photograph

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• Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of like math.

  Rachel Maddow

  Math, Goal, Different

  "Rachel Maddow’s Star Power". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. January 2009.

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• Don't focus on what I'm wearing. Focus on what's coming out of my face.

  Rachel Maddow

  Focus

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Rachel Maddow

  Anger, Thinking, Translate

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• 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

  Inspirational, Leadership, Respect

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• I don't have any option. I'm not going to be less gay or more pretty. I can't try to have less personality or fewer controversial opinions.

  Rachel Maddow

  Gay, Personality, Trying

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• 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.

  Rachel Maddow

  Believe, Trying, World

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The downside of playing dumb is that you sound dumb.

  Rachel Maddow

  Dumb, Sound

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", April 27, 2009.

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• 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.

  Rachel Maddow

  Inspirational, Graduation, Thinking

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• With the Republican Party`s presidential front-runner proposing that all Muslims should be banned from entering the United States, that perhaps there ought to be a national registry of Muslims, that we ought to looking into Muslims having to carry government ID cards that state their religion, now, the word fascist is being used to describe this ascending and leading Republican politician.

  Rachel Maddow

  Party, Government, Presidential

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• 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.

  Rachel Maddow

  Talking, Pottery, Levels

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. July 8, 2011.

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• I think of my job on television as explaining things.

  Rachel Maddow

  Jobs, Thinking, Television

  Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• There`s a reason people pause their lives to engage in political activism and pressure their local political leaders. Because as a whole, even if you can`t identify any one instance, as a whole pressure works and sometimes it starts with something as simple as pushing the button on the intercom.

  Rachel Maddow

  Simple, People, Leader

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When people get to speak about themselves and the things that matter to them, on their own terms, we see them as who they are. They can't be reduced to objects of derision.

  Rachel Maddow

  People, Matter, Speak

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• We got the first WikiLeaks publication of documents hacked and stolen by Russian government sources from the DNC, from the Democratic Party, and they started publishing those stolen documents from the DNC right before the Democrats started their convention.Good political timing if you`re trying to help [Donald] Trump and hurt the Democrats.

  Rachel Maddow

  Hurt, Party, Government

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Some people feel like stuff just happens to you and you cope as best you can. Some people feel like we can change what happens not only to ourselves but to other people. That's me, and I like that in anybody.

  Rachel Maddow

  People, Stuff, Feels

  Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• 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.

  Rachel Maddow

  People, Leader, Outsiders

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