"Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in……" — Sidney Blumenthal
"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 of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism."
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26 Quotes by Sidney Blumenthal
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22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.
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Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism.
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The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis…
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On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and…
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It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race…
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Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
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Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit…
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And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton…
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As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up…
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Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied…
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But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.
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Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.
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More Clarke Quotes
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I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Richard Clarke had plenty of opportunities to tell us in the administration that he thought the war on terrorism was…
— Condoleezza Rice
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Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the…
— Eugene Field
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Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day…
— Meriwether Lewis
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According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to…
— Ferdinand Mount
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I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership…
— Michael Scheuer
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Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking…
— Peter Orner
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The two policies that Ken Clarke is most famous for are his opposition to the Iraq war and being a…
— Vince Cable
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I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't…
— Matt Groening
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I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's…
— Conor Oberst
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In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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SEASONS PASSED, FALL AND WINTER and spring and summer. Leaves blew in through the open door of Lucius Clarke’s shop,…
— Kate DiCamillo
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