Rachel Maddow Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.”

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

“I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.”

“People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.”

“I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.”