"The whole idea of a democracy is that……" — 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 we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country."
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21 Quotes by Eugene Jarecki
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It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the…
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The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It…
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Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.
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It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be…
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Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his…
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He presented himself as the friend to Main Street America, and yet that aw-shucks persona ended up packaging policies and…
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You can call me an Eisenhower Republican. There is a gigantic gulf between an Eisenhower Republican and the kind of…
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We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power…
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It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
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Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism…
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I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my…
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My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an…
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