Rachel Maddow Quotes - Page 8

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• [Dan fried] is the department`s foremost Russia expert and he, too, is now leaving at a time when arguably the State Department needs it most, the State Department will not have the benefit of his insight going forward.

  Rachel Maddow

  Russia, Leaving, Experts

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I feel like Americans have always studied nationalism as a foreign phenomenon. And now, we`ve got a nationalist movement in our country that has a very articulate spokesman in the senior counselor to the president [Donald Trump].

  Rachel Maddow

  Senior, Country, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I don`t think we have thought of ourselves, at least in a modern iteration, as being a nationalist country or a country that has nationalist movements.

  Rachel Maddow

  Country, Thinking, Movement

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson says he believes that same ruling that stopped the first version of the ban should still apply to the second version of the ban because it is basically the same ban. It is basically the same policy.

  Rachel Maddow

  Believe, Ferguson, Bob

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Senator John McCain is unlike anybody else in not - not just in the Senate but in American politics. He`s unlike anybody else in American life. In his public life and in his heroics in war. He`s a singular figure in American life and American history. I think for everybody who has ever had a political difference with him that just instantly evaporates in the face of wanting the best for him because of cancer.

  Rachel Maddow

  War, Cancer, Thinking

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• I don't want to insert myself into the story. I just want to give a useful analysis of it to help people come to their own conclusions.

  Rachel Maddow

  People, Giving, Helping

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I am a woman, and sometimes that impacts what stories I want to do.

  Rachel Maddow

  Sometimes

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I don't feel there's anything about my experience of being gay that gives me more insight into "don't ask, don't tell," for example, than anybody else.

  Rachel Maddow

  Gay, Giving, Insight

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I don't want to be president. Like, "Today your job is Libya, Japan, unemployment, the government shutdown - oh, and by the way, Yemen, Syria and Jordan. That's your job today. And you'd better get it right."

  Rachel Maddow

  President, Today, Syria

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I end up liking politicians, both left and right, who talk about political matters as if they are addressing a bunch of adults, as if they are capable of handling both complexity and emotional responsibility.

  Rachel Maddow

  Responsibility, Emotional, Political

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

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• [Dan Fried] served under President [Barack] Obama and under President George W. Bush before that and under President [Bill] Clinton before that and under President George H.W. Bush before that and under [Ronald] Reagan before that and under [Jim] Carter before that. He has been there a long time.

  Rachel Maddow

  Long, President, Bills

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Dan Fried ]is a pillar of the U.S. State Department. He`s part of its institutional memory. He has been in the room for basically every important negotiation, every standoff, every big development, particularly between the United States and Russia for decades.

  Rachel Maddow

  Memories, Russia, Important

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The [Donald] Trump folks chose not to keep [Dan Fried] on. He was actually - I said he was actually the third-most senior diplomat in the foreign service.

  Rachel Maddow

  Senior, Diplomats, Said

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The [Donald] Trump administration got rid of the number one and number two most senior people ahead of [Dan fried] in the foreign service, so that did make him the most senior person still standing - but now he`s out, too.

  Rachel Maddow

  Senior, Two, Numbers

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• That`s how you end up with a guy like Dan Fried, overseeing the U.S. sanctions against Russia for Russia did in Ukraine and Crimea.Russia hates those sanctions more than they love life. They hate those sanctions. So, of course, you need your toughest and most experienced guy running those sanctions.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Hate, Love Life

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The new [Donald Trump] administration may not want the benefit of [Dan Fried] expertise in terms of figuring out what Russia is up to with us right now but I do. I mean, we can all benefit from it as a country as we figure out what`s going on right now with this presidency and with Russia in particular.

  Rachel Maddow

  Country, Mean, Russia

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Russia and [Vladimir] Putin`s antipathy toward Hillary Clinton from her time as secretary of state, Russia`s antipathy and loathing and fear of the U.S. State Department in general, those two - those things that we know about Russia they put a worrying cast over how successfully the new administration here has hollowed out and emptied out the U.S. State Department in just the few weeks since then been in charge.

  Rachel Maddow

  Two, Russia, Worry

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Given how we know Russia feels about the State Department, seeing what`s happening to the State Department under this current [Donald Trump] administration is worrying and raises all sorts of questions about the connections between this current administration and Russia.

  Rachel Maddow

  Russia, Worry, Administration

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• News about the Russia connections to the [Donald Trump] administration and what we are continuing to learn about those connections. What`s getting to be, I think, particularly unsettling is that simultaneously we are right now what`s going on, I think, is that we are number one nailing down more direct connections between the Trump campaign and the Russian government at the time the Russian government was influencing our election.

  Rachel Maddow

  Thinking, Continuing To Learn, Numbers

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We are starting to see what may be signs of continuing [Russian] influence in our country. Not just during the campaign but during the [Donald Trump] administration, basically signs of what could be a continuing operation. And those two things together are worth paying attention to.

  Rachel Maddow

  Country, Two, Together

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Two committees in the house were up all night long trying to get a version of the repeal of the Affordable Care Act passed. House Republicans are just fighting tooth and nail to pass it in the House, to try to get it into the Senate, to try to make it then so that the Senate will get on board. But you know who one of the Republican senators is who`s not on board with this anymore? Senator Tom Cotton.

  Rachel Maddow

  Fighting, Night, Two

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• These are career non-partisan apolitical staffers with a combined 150 years of experience at the State Department gone, just like that right off the top [right after Secretary Rex Tillerson was sworn in].

  Rachel Maddow

  Years, Careers, Gone

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Rex] Tillerson himself has no deputy, for example. Latest plans from the [Donald Trump's] administration call for a 37 percent cut to the agency`s budget, 37 percent.

  Rachel Maddow

  Cutting, Agency, Example

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think Obama has been skilled and farsighted in a lot of the stuff that he's done. And in other things, unskilled and not farsighted. On balance I'd say that he is doing most of what he said he'd do.

  Rachel Maddow

  Thinking, Balance, Done

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Anything I really want I can find online.

  Rachel Maddow

  Online

  Source: www.glamour.com

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