Sidney Blumenthal Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.”

“As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.”

“Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.”

“Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House.”

“The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.”

“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.”

“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.”

“22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.”

“Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.”