“The Barack Obama administration has been very, very, very pro-gay rights. They have pursued at every level policies to improve the lives of gay Americans and to further gay rights… And even before today, that legacy of the first term of the Barack Obama presidency was already clear. Today he added to that. He added icing to that. The cake was already baked, the legacy was already secure by his actions as president, by what his administration had done before he took this extra step today. This was something extra. This is something not necessary to secure his legacy. This is above and beyond.”
“As endorsements go, this one was a full octave below low-key. It was like the lowest note you can play on an oud. It was almost imperceptible to the human ear.”
— Rachel Maddow on Rick Santorum’s endorsement of Mitt Romney
“If you think of the Republican presidential race as a marathon, Newt Gingrich has stopped running in the marathon and decided to drive to the finish line instead. You mean the first one across the finish line wins? OK, I’ll meet you there. I don’t know why all these suckers are running. My way is so much faster and it has air conditioning.”
“So you ask people if they want the healthcare law and they say no, it’s unconstitutional, it’s tyranny. But if you ask people if insurance companies should be able to deny coverage to somebody because they happen to have cancer, they say of course not. So it’s like asking somebody, do you want a pepperoni pizza and they say no. And they say, well how about some dough with some sauce and some cheese and some pepperoni on it cooked in a pizza oven and they say, I’ll have it.”
“War is destructive. The idea that you can do something constructive with war is becoming this facile, dangerous, intellectually lax political interpretation of military counter-insurgency theory. I want to hear Obama say that doesn’t work. That war is never constructive.”
