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Sidney Blumenthal Quotes

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The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country’s history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country’s history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) It wasn’t simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country’s history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%.  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) But presidents matter. That’s one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton issues  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we’ve fallen, and how we’ve declined under Bush  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration’s complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) It’s absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) It wasn’t simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country’s history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn’t let Louie Freeh off the hook  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) But presidents matter. That’s one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) 22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) At the same time, clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) As I said, if you don’t stand up for yourself, people aren’t going to think that you can stand up for them  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes) Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority  (Sidney Blumenthal Quotes)