Rachel Martin quotes
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“Every team has kind of a style or adjectives people use to describe the game that the team plays.”
-- Rachel MartinSource : "U.S. Women's Soccer Team Prepares For World Cup". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 17, 2015.
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“Free speech in Bangladesh can get you killed”
-- Rachel MartinSource : Source: www.npr.org
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“When the Revolutionary War ended in 1781, not everyone was celebrating. It is estimated that between 15 and 20 percent of the population back then were loyal to the British Crown and thus were not so thrilled when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown.”
-- Rachel MartinSource : "What Happened To British Loyalists After The Revolutionary War?". "All Things Considered" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. July 3, 2015.
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“About half of the loyalists who left the United States ended up going north to Canada, settling in the province of Nova Scotia and also becoming pioneering settlers in the province of New Brunswick.”
-- Rachel MartinSource : Source: www.npr.org
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“History is, as we know, written by the winners.”
-- Rachel MartinSource : Source: www.npr.org
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“There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.”
-- Rachel MartinSource : Source: www.npr.org
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“We have to laugh. Life is hard and the news is often grim - you should be able to turn on NPR's Weekend Edition every week and know that we are going to make you think, make you question - and make you laugh, preferably out loud.”
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“People are sometimes having trouble deciphering what is true, and what is journalism with integrity, and what is not. It is incumbent upon us to, if anything, explain our process, and make sure that people understand the lengths that we go to bring objective truth-telling to the air, and to bring a wide variety of perspectives and the choices we make in how we cover the news. I think we could do a little bit of a better job doing that.”
-- Rachel MartinSource : Source: wwd.com
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“Average, middle-class people, the people of Macomb County, couldn't afford health care. Now they can [with Obamacare].”
-- Rachel MartinSource : Source: www.npr.org
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“We do live in a time where there are fake web sites peddling mistruths out or sites that use hyperbole and don't put things in context. There's a range of ways that real journalism has been mashed up with things that aren't journalism... like opinion or that's sensationalistic in some ways. It is really noisy out there. You have to think of ways to cut though the noise.”
-- Rachel MartinSource : Source: wwd.com
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“Nobody has ever accused Donald Trump of lowering the temperature on anything - I don't think.”
-- Rachel MartinSource : "Young Republican Roundtable: Shifting Views After Election Of Donald Trump". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. November 13, 2016.
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“For months, Republican Party leaders have been talking about the need to unify the GOP, in part because of Donald Trump and his criticism of the establishment, which created such big divides.”
-- Rachel MartinSource : Source: www.npr.org
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“President [Barack] Obama - he was unsuccessful in his efforts to raise the federal minimum wage, but he still used the Labor Department in other ways to try to boost paychecks for American workers.”
-- Rachel MartinSource : Source: www.npr.org
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“If you want to improve the Affordable Care Act, let's work together. But if you think you're simply going to throw millions off of health insurance, you got another guess coming.”
-- Rachel MartinSource : Source: www.npr.org
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“Republicans in Congress have already taken the initial steps to start repealing the Affordable Care Act. Democrats are hoping to at the very least slow that process down by rallying public support for the health care law.”
-- Rachel MartinSource : "Democrats Rally In Dozens Of Cities To Oppose Obamacare Repeal", bpr.org. January 16, 2017.
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“Even before President [Barack] Obama announced actions aimed at tightening controls on gun purchases, sales were up, partly in reaction to terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. Gun dealers say the president's initiatives have spurred sales. At the same time, polling shows more than two thirds of Americans support the president's proposals, including a majority of gun owners.”
-- Rachel MartinSource : Source: www.wbur.org
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“Presidents in the modern era who've had significant assets have usually put those into a blind trust with some kind of independent manager.”
-- Rachel MartinSource : Source: www.npr.org
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“There are no laws that prohibit an American president from continuing to be involved in their private business matters while in office, right?”
-- Rachel MartinSource : Source: www.npr.org
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“Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint.”
-- Rachel MartinSource : "Pope Francis Canonizes Mother Teresa In Vatican Ceremony". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. September 4, 2016.
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“If when you hear a song by OK Go you conjure up thoughts of a gigantic Rube Goldberg device or treadmills or drones or perfectly executed dance routines, then you know that this is a band that is masterful at coming up with amazingly creative music videos.”
-- Rachel MartinSource : "OK Go Drops New Zero-Gravity Video". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. February 14, 2016.
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