The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public and say, 'Let's put more money into taller fences, tougher laws, tougher sentencing, handcuffs,' and where does that money come from? Well, immediately, it… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion. — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
War is party-blind. It doesn't care who is in the Oval Office. The forces that drive us to war don't care whether it's Republican,… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you call bureaucratic… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan. — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan. — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public and say, 'Let's put more money into taller… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history. — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
