Rachel Maddow Quotes

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

Compassionate conservative, that's like having a gun rack on a Volvo.

Politics is how you think about life itself.

Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

The President is the CEO of this business that we call America.

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

I think it would be so much fun to be in the White House.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.