Top 26 Quotes by Sidney Blumenthal

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.