Bob Herbert quotes

Bob Herbert quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying . . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop.”
-- Bob Herbert

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“There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.”
-- Bob Herbert

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“There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.”
-- Bob Herbert

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“There's a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it's not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war. It's more frightening than that. It grows out of the suspicion that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made a radically wrong turn and is barreling along a dark road, with its headlights off and with someone behind the wheel who may not know how to drive.”
-- Bob Herbert

Source : Bob Herbert (2007). “Promises Betrayed: Waking Up from the American Dream”, p.275, Macmillan

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“Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.”
-- Bob Herbert

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“I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood.”
-- Bob Herbert

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“We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration”
-- Bob Herbert

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