Sidney Blumenthal Quotes

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

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

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.

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

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

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

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

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

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

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

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.

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

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.

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