Quotes by Sidney Blumenthal

About Sidney Blumenthal:

Sidney Stone Blumenthal is an American journalist, activist, writer and former political aide. He is a former aide to President Bill Clinton; a long-time confidant and adviser to Hillary Clinton; and a journalist, especially on American politics and foreign policy. He was 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 administration of then-President George W. Bush.
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The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

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

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Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

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The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth.

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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 in fact whatsoever.

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Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism.

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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.

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If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.

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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.

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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 national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism.

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

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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.

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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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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.

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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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The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

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On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

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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%.

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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 end of my book.

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Author Bio

  • NameSidney Blumenthal
  • DescriptionAmerican political writer
  • BornNovember 6, 1948
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist