Rachel Maddow Quotes - Page 10

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• That was like seeing a dodo and a unicorn all wrapped up in one

  Rachel Maddow

  Unicorn, Seeing

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• 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.

  Rachel Maddow

  War, Fighting, Men

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.207, Broadway Books

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• 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.

  Rachel Maddow

  Gay, Thinking, People

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

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• 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.

  Rachel Maddow

  Change, Issues, Political

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• after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of super-empowering the presidency with total war-making power and with secret new war-making resources that answer to no one but him, of insulating the public from not only the cost of war but sometimes even the knowledge that it's happened - war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops.

  Rachel Maddow

  War, Two, Political

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• [To Timothy LaHaye:] So, Mr. LaHaye, when the Rapture happens, can I have your stuff?

  Rachel Maddow

  Religion, Stuff, Rapture

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• if you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.

  Rachel Maddow

  Government, Want, Immortality

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• Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

  Rachel Maddow

  Military, Preparedness, Form

  "'Drift': Rachel Maddow On Why We Go To War". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 7, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Hug, Spy

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.6, Broadway Books

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• we ought to realize by now (see Korea, see Vietnam, see Afghanistan, see Iraq, see Iran) that deploying the US military, or dealing billions of dollars a year of arms to our ally of the moment that can serve as a regional rival to our enemy of the moment, is not always the best way to make threats go away. Our military and weapons prowess is a fantastic and perfectly weighted hammer, but that doesn't make every international problem a nail.

  Rachel Maddow

  Military, Iran, Korea

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.251, Broadway Books

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• The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud.

  Rachel Maddow

  President, Proud, Nobel

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. October 09, 2009.

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• I'm gonna vote against Donald Trump .

  Rachel Maddow

  Vote, Trump

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The idea of the Overton Window of using people on the political fringe to change the terms of acceptable debate, that`s an idea that`s been hugely influential in conservative politics since Joseph P. Overton thought it up, making radical ideas seem acceptable by advocating for the unthinkable.

  Rachel Maddow

  Using People, Ideas, Political

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• I don't think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.

  Rachel Maddow

  Stress, Thinking, People

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• 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

  Country, Military, Thinking

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• 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

  Ephemera, Lots Of Friends, Hiv

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• 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

  Thinking, Media, Ideas

  "Rachel Maddow: 'I'm definitely not an autocutie'". Interview With Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2011.

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• 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 Econ 101, they teach that the big-picture fight over national priorities is guns versus butter. Now it's butter versus margarine—guns get a pass. Overall, we're weaker for it, and at enormous cost.

  Rachel Maddow

  Fighting, Gun, America

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