Rachel Maddow Quotes

Silence is complicity. All Republicans who stand mute in the face of Trump's latest racism are telling you who they really are.

[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.

Will I lose any aid if I talk?

Let him say not one single word about his principles, or his creed—let him say nothing—promise nothing. Let no Committee or Convention—no town meeting ever extract from him a single word, about what he thinks now, or what he will do hereafter. Let the use of pen and ink be wholly forbidden as if he were a mad poet in Bedlam.

I would equate the legalization of drugs to the moral equivalent of genocide.

I don't comment on current politics.

Should someone go to jail for just doing drugs? I believe the time has come for that to end.

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all of the time. But the Republicans haven't given up trying.

In politics you'll never get into trouble by not saying too much.

Public opinion in the United States is in favor of legalizing drugs. The one who is blind is the government.

Our government has the weirdest bias against cannabis [Marijuana]. There's no reason for everybody to be so afraid of it. It's not the antichrist the DEA makes it out to be. Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful. And government has no business telling us what we can and can't use for pain relief.

Narcotics suppression is a very sexy political issue.

The consumption of drugs could be legalized, not penalized.

We need to repeal the whole war on drugs. It isn’t working. We have already spent over $400 billion since the early 1970s, and it is wasted money

If we had probably a repeal of most of the federal laws on drugs and the unfairness on how Blacks are treated with these drugs laws, it would be a tremendous improvement.

Drug consumption, production and trafficking should be subject to global regulations, which means that consumption and production should be legalized but within certain limits and conditions.

Good public service is good practical politics…. My goal is to strengthen the [Republican] Party by bettering it..

I can tell you that the formula works, and works pretty well. You avoid criminals and violence, you refuse their mode of money that nourishes the cartels, and that is a great solution to the violence problem. In relation to the health problem, I have not ever heard of anybody dying from an overdose of marijuana.

I never thought that Trump was going to run for president, but I was very firmly on record, including in the book that I wrote before, 'Adios, America,' as saying that Republicans should stop wasting their time with these novelty candidates.

I think the Republicans are trying to learn from their mistakes about attacks on women because the women's vote will backfire.

Trump could teach Republicans in Washington a lot if only they stopped posturing long enough to watch carefully.

After reading and studying and getting in touch with the amount of information that I had while I was researching to play Pablo, it just reinforced the idea that I had that the war on drugs is a big flop.

I'm pretty much done with political commentary. I've said everything I could possibly say. I've been a big mouth for long enough.

While Democrats may never adopt the policies of Ronald Reagan, they should follow his golden rule of politics closely. Reagan adamantly instructed his party members to never publicly criticize another Republican.

There's a line of thinking about Ted Cruz.