Eugene Jarecki Quotes

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• It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up,…
• The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic…
• Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.
• It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous…
• Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why?…
• He presented himself as the friend to Main Street America, and yet that aw-shucks persona ended up packaging policies and programs that were at times…
• You can call me an Eisenhower Republican. There is a gigantic gulf between an Eisenhower Republican and the kind of fringe brand of Republicanism that…
• 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…
• It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
• Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites…
• I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the…
• My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind…
• If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect…
• Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.
• The Tea Party is a group that rejects deep thinking, it rejects the very complex analysis that is involved in public policy, it rejects the…
• Reaganism as a political movement has enormous resources behind it and it seeks - through stagecraft and through a tremendous level of effort toward propaganda…
• Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.
• To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that…
• The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we…
• There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.

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