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I'm not trying to change things in the world and trying to use my leverage to do so. The only thing I'm trying to change in the world is that I'm trying to increase the amount of useful information in it. And entertainment, honestly.

Rachel Maddow

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Rachel Maddow
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: April 1
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I have learned when two Republicans are talking about legalizing drugs to shut up.
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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.
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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 end up liking politicians, both left and right, who talk about political matters as if they are addressing a bunch of adults, as if they are capable of handling both complexity and emotional responsibility.
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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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Americans are incredibly religious as a nation, and we have gotten that way by having the government stay out of religion and say religion is a private matter. The government doesn't take sides. Public schools don't promote or denigrate any religion.
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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.
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The [Donald] Trump campaign turned on a dime instantly as soon as those WikiLeaks dumps started.
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If you want to make the government take a religious side, then make the case, it should be Christian republic.
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Silencing the U.S. State Department, putting a friend of Vladimir Putin`s in charge at the U.S. State Department, who stands by quietly while the State Department gets hollowed out, gets gutted, that`s a dream for the Russian government, right? That`s a dream for Putin.
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I think Donald Trump is now kind of in love with the idea of becoming president of the United States. I think he truly does believe that he can be the Republican nominee.
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