Quotes by Rachel Maddow

“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.”

“Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? Thats why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if as the war ends, or at lea...”

“Social security isnt a ponzi scheme. Its not bankrupting us. Its not an outrage. It is working.”

“The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war making in the cumbersome legislature was not to disadvantage us against future enemies, but to di...”

“When civilians are not asked to pay any price, it's easy to be at war - not just to intervene in a foreign land in the first place, but to keep on fighting there. The justifications for staying at ...”

“The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it's privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In ...”

“Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.”

“My life is better with every year of living it.”

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

“Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.”

“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...”

“Coming up: The part of my interview with the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, where she smacks me down like a ball-peen hammer meeting a thumb. Ow. Ow. Ow.”

“You want to know what just happened there? She smacked me down - smacked me down: But Speaker Pelosi, the Republicans are all over the TV machine opposing the economic stimulus. Settle down, kid. I...”

“In other words, Bush broke what I have always called the Amish bus driver rule. If your religion requires you not to drive, cool beans, free country — but then you can‘t get hired to be a bus drive...”

“I‘ve given up trying to get invited to a cocktail party but I‘m going to the egg roll. I swear.”

“Spending freeze is what made the Depression 'Great.'”

“Who's Burson-Marsteller? When evil needs public relations, evil has Burson-Marsteller on speed-dial.”