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.
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.
The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.
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.
And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.
Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.
The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.
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.
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.
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.
Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.
George W. Bush has deliberately polarized and divided America for political purposes, politicizing the most basic questions of war and peace for partisan advantage.
George W. Bush has exhibited hostility to science that no other president has ever displayed.
But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.
The incubator for terrorism, after the Middle East, is Europe, partly because of proximity, partly because of the existence of large Muslim communities there.
The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.