Rachel Maddow Quotes

A Handkerchief Can Never Be Put In Another Pocket After It Has Been In One Pocket. I Don't Walk Under Ladders. I Have Items Of Clothing That Are Lucky For Me. That Rotates, But I Am Luck-oriented.

I Don't Think About People Watching Me On Tv. I Think It Would Stress Me Out.

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.

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.

Military Preparedness Is Absolutely A Form Of Strength.

If You Want To Achieve Immortality, See What You Can Do About Getting Yourself Turned Into A Pentagon Program.

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.

I Feel That Gay People Not Being Able To Get Married For Generations, Forever, Meant That We Came Up With Alternative Ways Of Recognizing Relationships. And I Worry That If Everybody Has Access To The Same Institutions That We Lose The Creativity Of Subcultures Having To Make It On Their Own. And I Like Gay Culture.

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.

I Have A Constitutional Weakness In Which I Am Very Easily Distracted By Flashing Lights. If There Is A Tv On In The Room, I Can't Have A Conversation With You. I Won't Eat, I Won't Sleep, I'll Just Meld With My Couch.

For The Same Work, Dudes Get Paid More.

Having A Place Out Of The City Is A Shortcut Toward The Mental Reset I Need.