Top 120 Rachel Maddow Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “It matters that there’s diversity on the court. I think it makes for better lawmaking, because you have people with more diverse range of judgment and who are going to make a better decision on the law.”

— Rachel Maddow

52. “We never had an effect well-organized national fascist party in this country. The way they want have had in decades past and in decades present in countries like Britain and France that we think of as such close allies.”

— Rachel Maddow

53. “Sarah Palin uses me as a laugh line in her stump speeches. If you’re willing to turn me into a joke, you should also be willing to talk to me.”

— Rachel Maddow

54. “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.”

— Rachel Maddow

55. “Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It’s a real thing. It’s not always referring to ancient history.”

— Rachel Maddow

56. “If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that’s a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that’s a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.”

— Rachel Maddow

57. “David Jolly is the only Republican I could find who’s really saying Donald Trump, you’re out, forget it, this is unacceptable, this is beyond the pale.”

— Rachel Maddow

58. “I’d rather have none at all than a grain too much.”

— Rachel Maddow

59. “They depend on cheating. Putin and his minions cheat at the financial markets. They cheat at the Olympics. They cheat at their own fake democracy. They cheat other people out of their democracies.”

— Rachel Maddow

60. “At a time when America should be doing everything we can to lead the fight to defeat ISIS and other radical jihadists, Donald Trump is playing right into their hands.”

— Rachel Maddow

61. “The highest percentage of respondents say that biggest problem in the country is the government. The biggest problem facing our country today is that our government is terrible. Dissatisfaction with the government, problem numero uno by a mile.”

— Rachel Maddow

62. “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

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

— Rachel Maddow

64. “I recommend sports, I don’t recommend gambling.”

— Rachel Maddow

65. “In this country, the most popular form of car racing is the huge multibillion dollar industry that’s called stock car racing. That’s what NASCAR is. That’s what the SC stands for in the middle of NASCAR, Stock cars.”

— Rachel Maddow

66. “When Ronald Reagan spoke a thing aloud, he believed it forever and for always. By the time he started running for president, in 1976, he had already developed an unwavering and steadfast faith in the correctness of whatever came out of his mouth.”

— Rachel Maddow

67. “When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that’s weird!”

— Rachel Maddow

68. “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.”

— Rachel Maddow

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

— Rachel Maddow

70. “Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It’s sort of like math.”

— Rachel Maddow

71. “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

72. “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.”

— Rachel Maddow

73. “I think that presidents don’t give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don’t give it up.”

— Rachel Maddow

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

— Rachel Maddow

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

— Rachel Maddow

76. “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.”

— Rachel Maddow

77. “I have this belief that Donald Trump keeps floating the idea that he will quit the party and run as an independent if the Republican Party does not treat him fairly.”

— Rachel Maddow

78. “I like big drinks that aren’t afraid of the alcohol in them. Not big in size, but in flavor, and the way I can allow myself to enjoy them is by making them in very small quantities. I make tiny glasses of very big drinks.”

— Rachel Maddow

79. “It is sometimes hard to know what Sarah Palin means, just on a day to day basis. Sometimes it is hard to follow what she is talking about.”

— Rachel Maddow

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

— Rachel Maddow

81. “Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn’t have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.”

— Rachel Maddow

82. “For the same work, dudes get paid more.”

— Rachel Maddow

83. “Donald Trump announced his no Muslims are allowed to come to the United States plan and that led to one of the greatest tweets of all time from New York Times columnist. Quote, “OK, I concede I picked the wrong day to modestly walk back my Trumpism as fascism column.””

— Rachel Maddow

84. “The Donbas was a heavily populated and productive manufacturing area, with Donetsk alone accounting for about 12 percent of Ukraine’s gross domestic product. The area nearby also accounted for something near 90 percent of Ukraine’s oil and gas production, and fracking technology promised to open new fields. Grabbing the Donbas was a twofer. Russia could cripple the teetering economy of Ukraine and scoop up a healthy supply of oil and gas. Novorossiya!”

— Rachel Maddow

85. “Fascistic leaders are aggressively macho and chauvinistic. They are xenophobic about people who they portray as outsiders or some sort of threat to the nation or as weaklings they can denounce.”

— Rachel Maddow

86. “But there’s a reason that we have different laws for juveniles than we do for adults. And it’s because kids are not liable for the things they do in the way that adults are, because we think that kids are different.”

— Rachel Maddow

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

— Rachel Maddow

88. “I don’t think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.”

— Rachel Maddow

89. “Francois Hollande is the president of France. He got all sorts of accolades for his leadership in France after the Paris attacks.”

— Rachel Maddow

90. “After Donald Trump’s ban all Muslims proposal, candidate Jeb Bush reacted by calling Mr. Trump unhinged. However, that would be the same Jeb Bush who says we should only allow refugees into this country who are Christians.”

— Rachel Maddow

91. “Overall, the United States admits to having lost track of eleven nuclear bombs over the years. I.”

— Rachel Maddow

92. “The country, meanwhile, has eroded into a stultifying economic sinkhole for average Russians. “Despite receiving $1.6 trillion from oil and gas exports from 2000 to 2011, Russia was not able to build a single multi-lane highway during this time. There is still no interstate highway linking Moscow to the Far East,” Karen Dawisha wrote in her richly detailed 2014 book, Putin’s Kleptocracy.”

— Rachel Maddow

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

— Rachel Maddow

94. “Accuracy just never really captured the expansiveness of his vision, or the arc of a good story well told.”

— Rachel Maddow

95. “I never had any facial hair in my life.”

— Rachel Maddow

96. “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.”

— Rachel Maddow

97. “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.”

— Rachel Maddow

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

— Rachel Maddow

99. “John McCain from the very beginning has been unflinchingly loyal to Sarah Palin. He has never thrown her under the bus. He has never conceded it was a bad decision to pick her. He has never ever said a bad word against her.”

— Rachel Maddow

100. “It is hard to know what Sarah Palin means in Republican politics anymore.”

— Rachel Maddow