Quotes for All
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 … Read more
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
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
You know just because you don’t like the way it sounds when I say it or you don’t like my haircut or you don’t like that I’m gay, it does not mean that what we say is not true. If you squint a little bit, it is true I do sometimes look like a dude, … Read more
The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud. Rachel Maddow
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. Rachel Maddow
If the colonists hadn’t rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn’t exist. Rachel Maddow
I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text. Rachel Maddow
[To Timothy LaHaye:] So, Mr. LaHaye, when the Rapture happens, can I have your stuff? Rachel Maddow
We have built something [a nuclear stockpile] bigger than we can drive. Rachel Maddow