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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.

Rachel Maddow

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Rachel Maddow
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: April 1
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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.
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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.
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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, and I am definitely gay.
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There's nothing about the way my life unfolded that should be seen as at all prescriptive for what anybody else wants to do.
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
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I realized I was gay when I was a teenager and I couldn't imagine what it meant to be a gay adult. I just did the next thing that seemed right, and that led me from activism to media to the kind of media I'm in now. But I like where I've ended up.
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Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about.
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As secretary of state you can go out in a helmet if you want to. Even in Switzerland in front of reporters.
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Internet's been down most of the day [at work]. Doing research by just asking everyone what we remember to be true. What could possibly go wrong?
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