If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that’s a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that’s a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public. Rachel Maddow Read Quote
If the colonists hadn’t rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn’t exist. Rachel Maddow Read Quote
It’s not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It’s the big-ticket stuff too. Rachel Maddow Read Quote
In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a ‘Public Safety Complex’ around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station. Rachel Maddow Read Quote
Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn’t have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress. Rachel Maddow Read Quote
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. Rachel Maddow Read Quote
Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need. Rachel Maddow Read Quote
