Rachel Maddow Quotes

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

I want to be a Kid Reporter because I would like to meet interesting people, and I also love being in front of the camera! As a Kid Reporter, I would love to learn how to be a better writer and interview people.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Entertainment and information work well together.

I'm always telling my students that if they can't explain what they are doing, to their grandmothers, then they probably don't understand it themselves.

I never want to dumb it down. If there's any simplification, it's just a simplification to make sure that the reader understands the point that the character is trying to make.

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.

If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it.

I love journalism.

And then you've got President Clinton who made the case as only he can. After he spoke, somebody sent out a tweet- they said, you should appoint him secretary of explaining stuff. I like that- secretary of explaining stuff. Although, I have to admit, it didn't really say stuff. I cleaned that up a little bit.

Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

Jesus made everything so simple and we have made it so complicated. He spoke to the people in short sentences and everyday words, illustrating His messages with never-to-be forgotten stories.

Communication works for those who work at it.

Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve inherently complex problems, which often do require complex mechanisms. However, this should not diminish our desire for elegant solutions, which convince by their clarity and effectiveness. Simple, elegant solutions are more effective, but they are harder to find than complex ones, and they require more time, which we too often believe to be unaffordable

News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.

As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.

What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.

Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.

I think of my job on television as explaining things.

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.