Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House. "
Sidney Blumenthal
House
Matter
White
Related Quotes:
" Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority. "
Sidney Blumenthal
Used
Office
Creative
" Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy. "
Sidney Blumenthal
Tough Decisions
Tough
Decisions
" The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush. "
Sidney Blumenthal
Progress
Need
Democrats
" 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
Stand Up
Stand
Sense
" 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
Attack
Inspired
Terrorism
" 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
Who
Line
Great
" 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
Terrorism
Truth
Truth Is
" The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care. "
Sidney Blumenthal
Strategy
Mistakes
Health
" 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
Create
Growth
You
" 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
History
Voting
Beginning
" Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism. "
Sidney Blumenthal
Terrorism
Very
Problem
" The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically. "
Sidney Blumenthal
Argument
Conservative
Economy
" It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%. "
Sidney Blumenthal
Poverty
New
History
" The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth. "
Sidney Blumenthal
Growth
Shows
Profile
" 22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush. "
Sidney Blumenthal
New
Lost
President
" If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook. "
Sidney Blumenthal
Any
Investigation
Clear
" At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy. "
Sidney Blumenthal
Doing
Like
Economy
" Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House. "
Sidney Blumenthal
Decision
Ripple
White
" 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
Up
Were
Cells
" 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. "
Sidney Blumenthal
Head
Key
Group
" What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton issues. "
Sidney Blumenthal
Issues
Terrorism
Happened
" Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded. "
Sidney Blumenthal
Child
Accomplishment
Leave
" And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration. "
Sidney Blumenthal
Against
FBI
Own
" 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
People
Stand
Stand Up