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… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he said no, more… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mamas boy and he said no, more… — 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
