Rachel Maddow Quotes

Ben Carson also denounced [Donald] Trump's ban all Muslims proposal saying we do not and would not advocate being selective on one's religion.

If you have to hire paid actors to impersonate people who politically support you, people don't actually natively politically support you. You are not a political animal that exists in nature.

When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them.

Sarah Palin is now the guy who hangs out in the high school parking lot, showing off his car, five years after he graduated.

Formula 1 is a huge international phenomenon even if an otherwise car racing obsessed American public has always found Formula 1 to be a little weird.

The Republican front-runner, has made a name for himself in the last months by trafficking prejudice and paranoia. His latest insult is his call to stop all Muslims from entering the United States.

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

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

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

I think of my job on television as explaining things.

I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.

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

The downside of playing dumb is that you sound dumb.

I'm not sure, but [Russia] might be happy to see this guy [Dan Fried] exiting stage left.

The [Donald] Trump campaign turned on a dime instantly as soon as those WikiLeaks dumps started.

There's no way to tweak your content in order to goose ratings. You do what you're good at and let people follow you.

I'm a sarcastic person. I learn through humor.

I care a lot about what my girlfriend thinks, and my friends, but ultimately it's me in the mirror. I just want to be proud of what I do.

It makes sense in that environment that you would hold on in the U.S. government to the people who know their way around this particular block.

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.

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

We do have evidence the [Donald] Trump campaign was working to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue.

What was particularly impressive by the [Donald] Trump campaign at the time is how they were so organized around the WikiLeaks stuff.

[Tom Cotton] is known for his efforts to scale back legal immigration. Legal. He wants to stop legal immigrants from coming to this country. That's very popular in Republican politics .

[Tom Cotton] is seen as a real rising star in the Republican Party. He's the youngest member of the United States Senate, routinely described as an up and comer.

Russian government attacked our election.

[Tom Cotton] has been an absolute champion of the idea of getting rid of Obamacare, scrapping the Affordable Care Act.

I never thought when I was a kid that I would become an adult. I never thought of myself as having any sort of distant horizon. I have sort of leapt without a master plan.

There's nothing about the way my life unfolded that should be seen as at all prescriptive for what anybody else wants to do.

Anything I really want I can find online.

Right after Secretary [Rex] Tillerson was sworn in, four of the top career diplomats at the department were told their services were no longer needed.

The Democratic Party likes to remind people that the Russian force around that was very strong, remarkably strong.

[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.

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.

[Dan Fried] served six presidents over a 40-year career dating back to the [Jimmy] Carter administration.

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.

As secretary of state you can go out in a helmet if you want to. Even in Switzerland in front of reporters.

I know every film is different. Every filmmaker is different and works differently.

Fascist political gatherings tend to encourage or at least expect a little violence around the edges, particularly against counter protesters.

Every popular zillion dollar sport has its share of personal scandals around the sport and its leadership.

A "New York Times"/CBS poll found 59 percent of the country didn't think Sarah Palin was prepare for the job that John McCain had picked her for.

John McCain famously has been incredibly loyal to Sarah Palin ever since he picked her as his running mate.

I don't think vodka is useful. I think it's for people who don't like alcohol, in which case, you probably shouldn't be drinking it.

Flint and its lead contaminated water are now the focus of sustained national attention including political attention.

Britons still commemorate the Battle of Cable Street in London. There are still pop songs in Britain that reference Sir Oswald Mosley and his black shirts.

"Red Dawn" was a movie made in 1984 I think about World War III. If you have not seen it and plan on watching it, you want to close your eye and cover your ears but not really. You can figure it out.

I never had any facial hair in my life.

I wish every Republican wanted to impeach [Jeorge W.] Bush , but people don't agree with this. He's stating a fact about what he believes.

If you want to make the government take a religious side, then make the case, it should be Christian republic.

Liberals say that we are secular country with a majority of Christians, absolutely.