Sidney Blumenthal famous quotes

04-19-2025

22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.
-- Sidney Blumenthal

#Jobs #New Job #President
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 taxes that would fall into the government coffers.
-- Sidney Blumenthal

#Fall #Cutting #Government
If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.
-- Sidney Blumenthal

#Hook #Investigation #Clear
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 millennium bombings.
-- Sidney Blumenthal

#Cells #President #Killing
The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.
-- Sidney Blumenthal

#Weather #Conservative #Argument
Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.
-- Sidney Blumenthal

#Decision #Tough #Economy
But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.
-- Sidney Blumenthal

#White #House #President
Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.
-- Sidney Blumenthal

#Reality #President #Lines
As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.
-- Sidney Blumenthal

#Thinking #People #Stand Up For Yourself
And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.
-- Sidney Blumenthal

#War #Administration #Directors
Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.
-- Sidney Blumenthal

#Government #Office #Creative
Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
-- Sidney Blumenthal

#Children #Accomplishment #Behinds
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 the end of my book.
-- Sidney Blumenthal

#Running #Country #Book
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 its first 9 months in office.
-- Sidney Blumenthal

#Office #Ineptitude #Might
The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.
-- Sidney Blumenthal

#Wings #Facts #Inspired
Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism.
-- Sidney Blumenthal

#Problem #Terrorism #Clinton
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 values and stand up for them.
-- Sidney Blumenthal

#Order #Able #Projects

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