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Rachel Maddow (31)

Birth:	1st April, 1973
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Radio Personality, Commentator, Television Presenter

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Rachel Anne Maddow is an American television host, political commentator, and author.She hosts a nightly television show, The Rachel Maddow Show, on MSNBC.Her syndicated talk radio program of the same name aired on Air America Radio. Maddow was
the first openly gay anchor of a prime-time news program in the United States. Asked about her political views by the Valley Advocate, Maddow replied, "I'm undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I'm in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican party platform."

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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  Topics in Power

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• 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.

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  Tags in Security, Reason

• 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.

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• I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.

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• I would like to be a polyglot.

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• It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. … And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.

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  Tags in People, Disagree, Fact, Sources

• My life is better with every year of living it.

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• It’s not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It’s the big-ticket stuff too.

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• Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Tags in Weakness, Just, Conversation

• So this is the only TV show in America where I am quite confident that you, the audience, will share my excitement when I tell you that coming up in our next segment, we have the best graph ever. Best graph ever.

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• Gay people – generally speaking – have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.

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  Tags in Generally, Generations, Responsibility, People, Community