The Bush Administration, and particularly Bush's chief political strategist and Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, have been expert in both galvanizing and mobilizing the fears and resentments of people. A good part of their politics consists of being against… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
I call George W. Bush a radical because he is undertaking a fundamental transformation of our Constitutional system of government and of our longstanding policies that have been accepted for literally generations. He thinks to concentrate unaccountable power in the Executive. He thinks you alter the laws so that, as Commander in Chief, he can determine, under what he says… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share
George W. Bush has deliberately polarized and divided America for political purposes, politicizing the most basic questions of war and peace for partisan advantage. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
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… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
The incubator for terrorism, after the Middle East, is Europe, partly because of proximity, partly because of the existence of large Muslim communities there. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
