Sidney Blumenthal Quotes

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• 22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.
• Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism.
• The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.
• 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…
• 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…
• Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
• Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.
• And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.
• As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.
• Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.
• But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.
• Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.
• The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.
• 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…
• If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.
• 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…
• 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…
• Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House.
• The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth.
• The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

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