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26 quotes by Sidney Blumenthal

Sidney Blumenthal (/ˈbluːmənθɔːl/; born November 6, 1948) is a former aide to President of the United States Bill Clinton and a widely published American journalist, especially on American politics and foreign policy. Over a career of twenty years, he became editor of several departments and wrote for several publications including The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. After 2000, he published several essays critical of the...
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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 runs from the beginning to the... →

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Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.

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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... →

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Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

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Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House.

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The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

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Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key... →

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22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.

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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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As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

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And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.

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At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy.

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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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