we ought to realize by now (see Korea, see Vietnam, see Afghanistan, see Iraq, see Iran) that deploying the US military, or dealing billions of dollars a year of arms to our ally of the moment that can serve as a regional rival to our enemy of the moment, is not always the best way to make threats go away.… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share
If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later. — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
“The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war making in the… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
“The Army's new pitch was simple. Good pay, good benefits, a manageable amount of adventure... but don't worry, we're not looking to… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order,… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The Constitutional Convention debated whether America should even have a standing army. ... They worried that a powerful military could rival civilian… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist. — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Ben Carson also denounced [Donald] Trump's ban all Muslims proposal saying we do not and would not advocate being selective on one's religion. — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency rather than… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Senator [Tom] Cotton has campaigned on wanting to kill Obamacare. He voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act back in January, but he now says, despite these marathon all-night sessions going on in the House, Republicans need to do better, they need to start over, they need to come up with something that the Senate says will actually reduce prices… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share
[Tom Cotton] has been an absolute champion of the idea of getting rid of Obamacare, scrapping the Affordable Care Act. — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh in on that subject, you're going to end up with a much more regressive public-policy environment than if you approach it in a quieter way. It's not because the public is stupid, it's just that people with only… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share
Liberals say that we are secular country with a majority of Christians, absolutely. — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said Democrats are… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Oswald Mosley's movement, it was a big movement. It was obviously anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, it was populist. Mosley wanted to replace the parliamentary system of government in Britain with a government that was based on business interests, that was based on the idea that business interests were the real interests of that country and business interests. and reorganizing the government to… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share
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… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird! — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
One of the manifestations of depression for me is that I lose my will. And I thereby lose my ability to focus. I don't think I'll ever have the day-to-day consistency in my performance that something like This American Life has. If I'm not depressed and I'm on and I can focus and I can think through something hard and… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share
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