Afraid Quote by Eugene Jarecki

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

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

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

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

You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan.

— Eugene Jarecki

There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.

— Eugene Jarecki

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

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

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

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

— Eugene Jarecki

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

You can call me an Eisenhower Republican. There is a gigantic gulf between an Eisenhower Republican and the kind of fringe brand of Republicanism…

— Eugene Jarecki