All Sidney Blumenthal Quotes
- 22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush. Bush
- Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism. Aware
- The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever. Attack
- 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… Administration
- 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… Beginning
- Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded. Accomplishment
- Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority. Benefit
- And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration. Actually Waging
- As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them. People
- Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems. Applied
- But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House. Biggest
- Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy. Clinton
- The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically. Argument
- 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… Barely
- If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook. Any
- 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… Absurd
- 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… Able
- Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House. Consequences
- The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth. Book
- The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care. Biggest
- On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made. Care
- At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy. Clinton
- What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton… Administration
- Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group… Clarke
- It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before.… Clinton