Eric Alterman Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.”

“Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.”

“For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.”

“Liberals believe that they can't get a fair shake from the media anymore.”

“Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.”

“Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.”

“Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election.”

“There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.”

“America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.”

“While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.”