Rachel Maddow

My life is better with every year of living it.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

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.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

Before 'Homeland,' I had £80 in the bank and no idea what I was going to do. I seriously considered giving it all up and getting a job as a lorry driver.