Rachel Maddow Quotes

I've learned to mumble with great incoherence.

I'm not the guy who will sit in a room with somebody who's using a bunch of big words and just act like I know what they're talking about, or sit on set with somebody and they'll be trying to explain something and not using layman's terms and I'll just say, "Hey, excuse me, what do you mean by that? Explain to me so I just understand."

Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

That's Joe Biden right there - unbowed, unbroken and unable to stop talking.

It is impossible to say just what I mean!

Being a host or a guest or a pundit, you really want to say something that's interesting and potentially provocative, that's going to stick with people. The last thing you want to say when you're a politician is something provocative.

I majored in political science and speech communication.

In a world where audiences listen for attitudes rather than arguments or information, speakers must feel the pressure to posture rather than engage.

I'm not a good talker, I'm a great talker because I do it so often over a long period of time.

If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.

[ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is not a very balanced man. When he talks, you never understand what he means. What does he mean this time? That he wants to be friends with us? We've wanted to be friends with him for some time; I've always wanted to.

Barack Obama's a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences.

Words mean nothing to liberals. They say whatever will help advance their cause at the moment, switch talking points in a heartbeat, and then act indignant if anyone uses the exact same argument they were using five minutes ago.

A lot of people don't know what they want, you know, or they're just kind of vague about it.

The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.

Well, usually when a person shakes their head," said McGonagall coldly, "they mean 'no.' So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans.

He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.

... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

You are so obtuse!" Brontë says, exasperated. I am calm in my response. "Do you mean stupid, or angular? You need to be more specific with your insults.

If you say three things, you don't say anything.

Although Mr. Trump talks an interesting and entertaining game, rarely do I hear him lay out specifics.